Rasamañjarī, 1805 or 1806. = रसमञ्जरी, १८०५-१८०६.
- Publication:
- 1805 or 1806.
१८०५-१८०६. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (25 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 529
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s25q - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Aesthetics, Indic.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.
Women in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. - Form/Genre:
- Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Lived in northern Bihar; member of the Maithili brahman community; 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.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 25r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
24 leaves foliated 2-25, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhānudattamiśraviracitārasamaṃjarīsamāptā // śrīsaṃvat 1863 śake 1727 vaiśākhaśuda 15 śukravāsaralikhitaṃ bhikaṃbhaṭṭātmajaviśvanāthena (f. 25r).
Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1727 (1805-1806) (f. 25r); dates do not align and so there is a year discrepancy.
Scribe is Viśvanātha son of Bhikaṃbhaṭṭa (f. 25r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. - 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 2384 (UP 529).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 529
- Contributor:
- Viśvanātha (Son of Bhikaṃbhaṭṭa), scribe.
- OCLC:
- 851098952