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Rasamañjarī 1603. = रसमञ्जरी, १६०३.

Author/Creator:
Bhānudatta Miśra.
Publication:
1603.
१६०३.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 511
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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