Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 529: Rasamañjarī University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 529: 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/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from colophon (f. 25r). Written in 8-10 lines per leaf. 24 leaves foliated 2-25, upper left and lower right verso. 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. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 529 9959690093503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851100349 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5969009 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 scribe Viśvanātha (Son of Bhikaṃbhaṭṭa) Colophon: iti bhānudattamiśraviracitārasamaṃjarīsamāptā // śrīsaṃvat 1863 śake 1727 vaiśākhaśuda 15 śukravāsaralikhitaṃ bhikaṃbhaṭṭātmajaviśvanāthena (f. 25r).

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 1 item (25 leaves) : 10 x 23 cm 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