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Rasamañjarī, circa 1700-1850. = रसमञ्जरी, १७००-१८५०.

Author/Creator:
Bhānudatta Miśra.
Publication:
circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (22 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 518
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Sanskrit poetry.
Aesthetics, Indic.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.
Women in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity).
Form/Genre:
Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Biography/History:
Lived in northern Bihar and a member of the Maithili brahman community; was the son of a poet named Gaṇeśvara.
Summary:
Manuscript used for recitation and contemplation, is a poetic treatment of Sanskrit poetics, literary aesthetics, and rhetoric (alaṃkāraśāstra); title translates as Bouquet of rasa, a reference to a nectar-like flavor or essence correlating to a heightened aesthetic awareness for the hearer of the poem; text uses sexual imagery such as different types of illicit women referred to as nāyikās. Manuscript praises the Hindu deity Pāṇḍuraṅga, a regional deity from Maharashtra linked to the child Kṛṣṇa (f. 22v).
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 22v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadbhānudattaprākāśetārasamaṃjarīsamāptaḥ // śāke maheśamihikāṃśukalāprayukte jyeṣṭhetuṣārakara ekakalāvaśeṣe // śrībhānuva[ca]racitārasamaṃjarīyaṃ gaurīśvareṇa likhitādharaṇījavāre sarasvatyai namaḥ // śubhaṃm astu // śrīpāṃḍuraṃgāropaṇam astu // (f. 22v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Scribe is Gaurīśvara (f. 22v).
Penn Provenance:
Manuscript sold along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 519.
Cited in:
Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2383 (UP 518).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 518
Contributor:
Gaurīśvara, scribe.
OCLC:
847757186