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. His grandson Hari Dīkṣita also lived in the same century.

Summary:

Manuscript is a sub-section of a larger grammatical treatise and commentary called the Prauḍhamanoramā, which is a rearticulation and revitalization of the work of the ancient grammarian Pāṇini. Manuscript also contains the super-commentary by Hari Dīkṣita, which runs parallel, above and below the main "root" text of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's work.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; title of secondary commentary Laghuśabdaratna from colophon (f. 54v); secondary title of super-commentary supplied from colophon (f. 54v).
Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
54 leaves foliated 1-54, upper left verso.
Colophon (to super-commentary): iti dīkṣitabhaṭṭojidikṣitaharidīkṣitakṛte laghuśabdaratne manoramāvyāvyane pañcasaṃdhiprakaraṇaṃ // (f. 54v).
Mistakes blacked out; numerous corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
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 2612 (UP 211).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 211.

Contains:

Hari Dīkṣita. Laghuśabdaratna.
Pañcasaṃdhiprakaraṇa.

OCLC:

821581952