Details

Standardized Title:

Amarakośa

Other Title:

Amarakośa.

Subjects:

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Sanskrit.
Sanskrit language -- Dictionaries.
Sanskrit language.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Summary:

Sanskrit lexicon; contains unidentified commentary beginning (f. 1r) and continuing above and below the main text throughout; manuscript described as "very old" on wrapping.

Notes:

Title from second verse of text (f. 1v), alternate title Amarakośa from wrapping.
Written in 4-11 lines per leaf.
121 leaves foliated 1-121, middle right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins, some word divisions and corrections in red; some commentary written in red.
Scribe is Lakṣminārāyaṇa (f. 121v).
Non-Latin script record.

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 2734 (UP 743).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 743

Contributor:

Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa, scribe.

OCLC:

762159859