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Rasamañjarī, circa 1700-1850.
रसमञ्जरी
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 518
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bhānudatta Miśra.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit poetry.
- Aesthetics, Indic.
- Sanskrit language--Rhetoric.
- Sanskrit language.
- Women in literature.
- Eroticism in literature.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Sex.
- Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity).
- Genre:
- poems
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Manuscript sold along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 519.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (22 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 518
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- 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. Manuscript praises the Hindu deity Pāṇḍuraṅga, a regional deity from Maharashtra linked to the child Kṛṣṇa (f. 22v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 22v).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmadbhānudattaprākāśetārasamaṃjarīsamāptaḥ // śāke maheśamihikāṃśukalāprayukte jyeṣṭhetuṣārakara ekakalāvaśeṣe // śrībhānuva[ca]racitārasamaṃjarīyaṃ gaurīśvareṇa likhitādharaṇījavāre sarasvatyai namaḥ // śubhaṃm astu // śrīpāṃḍuraṃgāropaṇam astu // (f. 22v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Scribe is Gaurīśvara (f. 22v).
- 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 2383 (UP 518).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 518
- OCLC:
- 847757186
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