Rasamañjarī, circa 1700-1850.
रसमञ्जरी

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bhānudatta Miśra.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit poetry.

Sanskrit language--Rhetoric.

Sanskrit language.

Aesthetics, Indic.

Women in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Sex.

Genre:

poems

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Manuscript sold along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 518.

Physical Description:

1 item (25 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Colĺection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 519

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. 25v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 25v).

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmadbhānudattamiśtaviracitārasamaṃjarī saṃāptā // (f. 25v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked by double red 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 2385 (UP 519).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 519

OCLC:

847756040