Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit poetry.
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)

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. 22r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhānudatamiśraviracitārasamaṃjarīsaṃpūrṇā (f. 22r).
Dated śaka 1765 (1843) (f. 22r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 2386 (UP 1550).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1550.

OCLC:

927115350