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Title

Authors

• Bhānudatta Miśra

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964460813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913796476
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6446081

Publisher

Language

Summary

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.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 23v).
   
• Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Watermark on one leaf with the year 1834 and a word including the letter R (f. 21).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Aesthetics, Indic
• Sanskrit language--Rhetoric
• Women in literature
• Eroticism in literature
• Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu goddesses--India--Andhra Pradesh

Genres

• Poems
• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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