Details

Subjects:

Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active 1670-1750. Paribhāṣenduśekhara.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity) -- Art.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Paintings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Art.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century philosopher and commentator from South India formerly known as Veṅkatanātha.

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for consultation and study and is a grammatical commentary on the Paribhāṣenduśekhara by Nāgeśabhaṭṭa. Manuscript lacks an end.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
49 leaves foliated 1-49, lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked or crossed out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Single wooden cover with lacquer coating bearing a painting of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa flanked on the left and right by two female attendants in the act of worshiping the god. Red wash serves as the background with a green floral border. Paper is European with several different watermarks, some bearing a crest, possibly representing a stylized letter "B" resting on a pedestal and above which is a crown; another bears the date of 1839, establishing the terminus post quem of the manuscript.
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 2456 (UP 1714).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1714

OCLC:

821070903