Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1550: Rasamañjarī
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Title from colophon (f. 22r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1765 (1843) (f. 22r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1550
9967556963503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927115486
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6755696
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.
In Sanskrit
Rasamañjarī
रसमञ्जरी
Bhānudatta Miśra
Colophon: iti śrībhānudatamiśraviracitārasamaṃjarīsaṃpūrṇā (f. 22r).
paper
1 item (22 leaves) : 14 x 26 cm
Sanskrit poetry
Aesthetics, Indic
Sanskrit language--Rhetoric
Women in literature
Eroticism in literature
Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism
Poems
Treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century