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Rasamañjarī, after 1834.

Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Bhānudatta Miśra.
Timespan:
India -- Andhra Pradesh.
Date:
1834
Identifier:
9964460813503681; (OCoLC)ocn913796441; (OCoLC)913796441; (PU)6446081-penndb-Voyager
Language:
Sanskrit
Subject:
Hindu goddesses -- India -- Andhra Pradesh.; Hindu goddesses.; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.; Aesthetics, Indic.; Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.; Women in literature.; Eroticism in literature.; Manuscripts.; Poems.; Treatises.; Manuscripts, Sanskrit.; Watermarks.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts
Physical Description:
1 item (23 leaves) : paper; 12 x 30 cm
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 23v).; Watermark on one leaf with the year 1834 and a word including the letter R (f. 21).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.; 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.; Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.; 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).; Colophon: iti rasamaṃjarīsamāptā // śrījagadaṃba // rasamaṃjaryāḥ pustakam idaṃ // (f. 23v).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Ms. Coll. 390
Collection:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts.