Rasamañjarī, circa 1700-1850; रसमञ्जरी,१७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Gaurīśvara (scribe)

Name:

Bhānudatta Miśra

Date:

1700

Description:

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. Manuscript praises the Hindu deity Pāṇḍuraṅga, a regional deity from Maharashtra linked to the child Kṛṣṇa (f. 22v).

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Manuscript sold along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 519.

Subject:

Sanskrit poetry; Aesthetics, Indic; Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric; Women in literature; Eroticism in literature; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (22 leaves) : paper; 10 x 23 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Lived in northern Bihar and a member of the Maithili brahman community; was the son of a poet named Gaṇeśvara.; Title from colophon (f. 22v).; Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.; 22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīmadbhānudattaprākāśetārasamaṃjarīsamāptaḥ // śāke maheśamihikāṃśukalāprayukte jyeṣṭhetuṣārakara ekakalāvaśeṣe // śrībhānuva[ca]racitārasamaṃjarīyaṃ gaurīśvareṇa likhitādharaṇījavāre sarasvatyai namaḥ // śubhaṃm astu // śrīpāṃḍuraṃgāropaṇam astu // (f. 22v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.; Scribe is Gaurīśvara (f. 22v).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 518

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts