Details

Other Title:

Kāvyasudhā.

Subjects:

Bhānudatta Miśra. Rasataraṇgiṇī.
Sanskrit poetry.
Hindu mythology.
Rasas.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript, elsewhere known as Kāvyasudhā, is used for consultation and study and is a gloss or commentary (vyākhyā) of Bhanudatta Miśra's poem Rasataraṅginī (River of Rasa), a treatment of Sanskrit poetics, aesthetics, and containing numerous references to well known Hindu myths.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 48v); alternate title Kāvyasudhā supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
48 leaves foliated 1-48, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmahārājādhirājaśrībhīmasāhasudho dadhisaṃbhavaśrīnemasāhavidvadviracitāyāṃ sāhityasūdhāyāṃ rasataraṃgiṇīvyākhyām aṣṭamaḥ staraṃgaḥ // (f. 48v).
Mistakes black out; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 2375 (UP 510).
Referenced as manuscript N in Sheldon Pollack, Bouquet of Rasa & River of Rasa by Bhanudatta (New York: The Clay Sanskrit Library, 2009), p. xvii.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 510

OCLC:

847759690