What is the meaning of the title Rasamanjari, the text by Bhanu Datta?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Bouquet of Delight
Option (1) Seven Hundred Verses — Incorrect. This is what Bihari Satsai by Bihari Lal stands for: it is made up of 700 verses (satsai).
Option (2) Bouquet of Delight — Correct. Bhanu Datta’s Rasamanjari is interpreted as the ‘Bouquet of Delight’.
Option (3) Song of the Cowherd — Incorrect. This is Gita Govinda, the Sanskrit poem by Jayadeva.
Option (4) The Connoisseur’s Delight — Incorrect. This is Rasikapriya, composed by Keshav Das.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Themes of Paintings – An Overview …Composed in the twelfth century by Jayadeva, who is believed to have been the court poet of Lakshmana Sen of Bengal, Gita Govinda, the ‘Song of the Cowherd’, is a lyrical poem in Sanskrit, evoking shringara rasa, portraying the mystical love between Radha and Krishna through worldly imageries. 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’.” “Themes of Paintings – An Overview …Rasikapriya, translated as ‘The Connoisseur’s Delight’, is replete with complex poetic interpretations and was composed to incite aesthetic pleasure to elite courtiers.” |