Rasamañjarī, 1805 or 1806.
रसमञ्जरी

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bhānudatta Miśra.

Contributor:

Viśvanātha (Son of Bhikaṃbhaṭṭa), scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Indic.

Sanskrit language--Rhetoric.

Sanskrit language.

Women in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Sex.

Genre:

poems

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (25 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 529

Place of Publication:

1805 or 1806.

१८०५-१८०६.

Language Note:

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

OCLC:

851098952