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

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. 25v).

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Manuscript sold along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 518.

Subject:

Sanskrit poetry; Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric; Aesthetics, Indic; Women in literature; Eroticism in literature; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (25 leaves) : paper; 12 x 25 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. 25v).; Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīmadbhānudattamiśtaviracitārasamaṃjarī saṃāptā // (f. 25v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked by double red line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Colĺection of Indic Manuscripts