Rasamañjarī, 1843.
रसमञ्जरी

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.

Genre:

poems

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (22 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1550

Place of Publication:

1843.

१८४३.

Language Note:

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