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Rasamañjarī, after 1834.
रसमञ्जरी
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1487
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bhānudatta Miśra.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu goddesses.
- India--Andhra Pradesh.
- Aesthetics, Indic.
- Sanskrit language--Rhetoric.
- Sanskrit language.
- Women in literature.
- Eroticism in literature.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Sex.
- Hindu goddesses--India--Andhra Pradesh.
- Genre:
- poems
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (23 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 30 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1487
- Place of Publication:
- after 1834.
- after १८३४.
- 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. Text praises the Hindu goddess Jagadaṃba, a regional deity from Andhra Pradesh.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 23v).
- Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
- 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti rasamaṃjarīsamāptā // śrījagadaṃba // rasamaṃjaryāḥ pustakam idaṃ // (f. 23v).
- Dated after 1834 based on a watermark (f. 21); date written at the end of manuscript has only śaka 17-- without providing the decade or year, but which could correspond to the watermark (i.e., after śaka 1756).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Watermark on one leaf with the year 1834 and a word including the letter R (f. 21).
- 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 2380 (UP 1487).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1487.
- OCLC:
- 913796441
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