Rasamañjarī 1603. = रसमञ्जरी, १६०३.
- Publication:
- 1603.
१६०३. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 511
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39v8f - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Sanskrit poetry.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.
Aesthetics, Indic.
Women in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. - Form/Genre:
- Poems.
Treatises.
Diagrams.
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. Diagram of intersecting circles forming a central flower pattern with numbers on front folio (f. 1r).
- Notes:
- Scribe is Viśvadhāra, son of Uddhava (f. 18v).
Title from colophon (f. 18v).
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śrīśrīmadbhānudattamiśra - prakāsītārasamaṃjarāsamāpta // (f. 18v).
Dated saṃvat 16 varṣe saṃvat ṣoḍaśaṣaṣṭiṃśatine varṣe (1603) (f. 18v).
Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; 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 2382 (UP 511).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 511
- Contributor:
- Viśvadhāra (Son of Uddhava), scribe.
- OCLC:
- 847753956