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.
Lived in northern Bihar; member of the Maithili brahman community; son of a poet named Gaṇeśvara.; Title from colophon (f. 25r).; Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.; 24 leaves foliated 2-25, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti bhānudattamiśraviracitārasamaṃjarīsamāptā // śrīsaṃvat 1863 śake 1727 vaiśākhaśuda 15 śukravāsaralikhitaṃ bhikaṃbhaṭṭātmajaviśvanāthena (f. 25r).; Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1727 (1805-1806) (f. 25r); dates do not align and so there is a year discrepancy.; Scribe is Viśvanātha son of Bhikaṃbhaṭṭa (f. 25r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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