Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Bhānudatta Miśra

Other related names

• Viśvadhāra (Son of Uddhava), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959625553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847762101
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962555

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. Diagram of intersecting circles forming a central flower pattern with numbers on front folio (f. 1r).

Notes

• Scribe is Viśvadhāra, son of Uddhava (f. 18v).
   
• Title from colophon (f. 18v).
   
• Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 16 varṣe saṃvat ṣoḍaśaṣaṣṭiṃśatine varṣe (1603) (f. 18v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Poems
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 511: Rasamañjarī are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — diagram, f. 1r