Kalyanamalla

For King Kalyanamalla of medieval Khas Kingdom, see Khas dynasty.

Kalyanamalla or Kalyan Malla was a 15th–16th-century Indian poet and writer of Ananga Ranga aka 'Stage of the Bodiless One', a sanskrit manuscript on 'Art of Love'.

The arch-poet Kalyan Malla was a prince, a grandson of King Trailyokyachandra of Karpur Dynasty and son of Gaja Malla.^[1]

Kalyanamalla was from Kalinga and belonged to the Brahmin caste.^[2]

In one of his verses in Anangaranga, he speaks of the importance of a fine environment for lovemaking:^[3]

Choose a courtyard that is high up in the mansion,

that is spacious, pleasant, and newly whitewashed,

that is perfumed by incense from aloe and other fragrant substances,

that is filled with the sound of musical instruments and is bright with lamplight.

Here let the man make love to the woman freely to his heart's content.

— Kalyanamalla, Anangaranga

References

1. Shastri, Dwarka Prasad (2005). अनङ्गरङ्ग - Anangrang of Mahakavi Kalyan Malla. Chowkhamba Krishnadas Academy. pp. Preface. ISBN 812180180X.
2. Suzanne G. Frayser; Thomas J. Whitby (1995). Studies in human sexuality: a selected guide. Libraries Unlimited. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-56308-131-6. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
3. Parthasarathy, R. (2017). Erotic Poems From the Sanskrit an Anthology. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54546-4.