TY - BOOK ID - 52102701 TI - "Bouquet of rasa" ; : & "River of rasa" AU - Bhānudatta Miśra AU - Pollock, Sheldon Ivan PY - 2009 SN - 0814767559 9780814767559 PB - New York, NY : New York University Press : JJC Foundation, DB - UniCat KW - Sanskrit poetry KW - Rasas KW - Poetics KW - Bhānudatta Miśra KW - Bhānudatta Miśra KW - Sanskrit poetry - Translations into English KW - Rasas - Poetry KW - Poetics - Poetry KW - Bhānudatta Miśra - Translations into English UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52102701 AB - Bhanu is probably the most famous Sanskrit poet that no one today has ever heard of. His “Bouquet of Rasa” and “River of Rasa,” both composed in the early sixteenth century, probably under the patronage of the Nizam of Ahmadnagar in western India, attracted the attention of the most celebrated commentators in early modern India. Some of the greatest painters of Mewar and Basohli vied to turn his subtle poems into pictures. And his verses were prized by poets everywhere: Abu al-Fazl, the preeminent scholar at Akbar’s court, translated them into Persian, and, Kshetráyya, the great Andhra poet of the next century, adapted them into Telugu. Many writers have described the types of heroines and heroes of Sanskrit literature (the subject of the “Bouquet of Rasa”) or explained the nature of aesthetic emotion (that of the “River of Rasa”), but none did so in verse of such exquisite and subtle artistry. ER -