The Rasamanjari possess unique characteristics and features that is:
(A) Depiction of Radha and Krishna
(B) Depiction of Rama and Bharat
(C) Courtiers and their Families
(D) The text is a treatise on Rasa
(E) Deals with the classification of heroes (nayakas) and heroines(nayikas) in accordance with their age.
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Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is option 4: (D) and (E) Only
The Rasamanjari possess unique characteristics and features that is:
(A) Depiction of Radha and Krishna
(B) Depiction of Rama and Bharat
(C) Courtiers and their Families
(D) The text is a treatise on Rasa
(E) Deals with the classification of heroes (nayakas) and heroines(nayikas) in accordance with their age.
Bhanu Datta, a Maithil Brahmin who lived in Bihar in the fourteenth century, composed another favourite text of artists, Rasamanjari, interpreted as the ‘Bouquet of Delight’. Written in Sanskrit, the text is a treatise on rasa and deals with the classification of heroes (nayakas) and heroines (nayikas) in accordance with their age — baal, taruna and praudha; physiognomic traits of appearance, such as padmini, chitrini, Bianchini, hastini, etc., and emotional states, such as khandita, vasaksajja, abhisarika, utka, etc. Though Krishna is not mentioned in the text, painters have introduced him as the archetypal lover.