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. Diagram of intersecting circles forming a central flower pattern with numbers on front folio (f. 1r).
Lived in northern Bihar and a member of the Maithili brahman community; was the son of a poet named Gaṇeśvara.; Scribe is Viśvadhāra, son of Uddhava (f. 18v).; Title from colophon (f. 18v).; Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.; 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: śrīśrīmadbhānudattamiśra - prakāsītārasamaṃjarāsamāpta // (f. 18v).; Dated saṃvat 16 varṣe saṃvat ṣoḍaśaṣaṣṭiṃśatine varṣe (1603) (f. 18v).; Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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