Amarushatakam

(“Amaru’s Hundred”) Collection of
poems on the theme of erotic love, traditionally ascribed to the seventh-century poet Amaru. The text’s name is
doubly misleading since present editions contain almost 200 poems, and
there is strong evidence that it was compiled from several earlier collections,
making its authorship uncertain.
Although the poetry explores the joys of
carnal love and is thus not explicitly religious, the themes of lover/beloved and
union/separation treated in this poetry
later became standard genres of bhakti
(devotional) poetry.