Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Manuscript is a grammatical arrangement, lexicon, and commentary on the sūtras of the ancient Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini. Manuscript is foliated into three parts, comprising four sections of the overall text; the first part consists of the Pūrvārdha; the second part comprises the Tiṅananta and the Kṛdanta; the third part contains the Liṅgānuśāsanavṛtti.

Notes:

Title from title colophon (Part 3, f. 56r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
390 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-170, (Part 2) 1-164, (Part 3) 1-56, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojīdIkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃ pariṇīyaliṅgānuśāsanaṣṭattiḥsamāptā // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śrīsītārāmacaṃdrārpaṇam astu // śrīgurucaraṇāraviṃdābhyāṃ namaḥ // saṃvat 1931 śake 1796 pauṣakṛṣṇa 4 maṃdavāsare samāptā // maisūrakaropanāmakaviśvanāthena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ // tailād rakṣej jalād rakṣed rakṣec chithilabaṃdhanāt // mūrkhahastena dātavyam evaṃ vadati pustakaṃ // śrīkuladevatārpaṇam astu // śrīrastu // (Part 3, f. 56r).
Dated saṃvat 1931; śaka 1796 (1874 AD) (Part 3, f. 56r).
Scribe is Viśvanātha Maisūrakara (Part 3, f. 56r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in red and black ink in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; some accents indicated in part of the text; some folios treated with yellow.
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 2533 (UP 205).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 205

Contributor:

Maisūrakara, Viśvanātha, scribe.

OCLC:

816117105