Details

Standardized Title:

Nirukta. Selections

Subjects:

Vedic philology.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Dictionaries.
Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit language -- Etymology.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgari).

Summary:

Early grammar explaining the meanings of words, especially in their Vedic context; rules of word formation, roots, etymologies, etc., as well as a glossary of terms; opens (f. 1v) with text corresponding to the seventh chapter of the critical edition edited by Lakshman Sarup (London: 1920-9).

Notes:

Written 7 lines per leaf.
117 leaves foliated 1-117, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nairukte uttaraṣṭke trayodaśo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīgajāṃnanārpaṇama[stu] // athaitasya samāmnāyasyā // 1 // (f. 117v).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; marginal corrections by different hands; accented in red; word divisions marked in red; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red; double red vertical lines mark margins; some leaves colored blue (f. 108-109, 112-117).
Old newsprint cover; wooden base (broken).

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 340 (UP 21).
Listed in New Catalogus Catalogorum (Madras: University of Madras, 1949), Vol. 10, p. 138A.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 21.

OCLC:

399873822