Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Referred to as Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa in the colophon (f. 46v), son of Satī and Śiva Bhaṭṭa Upādhyāya.

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for consultation or teaching and is a grammatical commentary on Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī, particularly emphasizing religious aspects or qualities of traditional grammatical treatises as well as elevating the ancient grammarians such as Pāṇini and Patāñjali to a semi-divine status. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 185r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
100 leaves foliated 85-172, [i], 173-183, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadupādhyāyopanāmakaśivabhaṭṭasutasatīgarbhajanāgeśabhaṭṭaracetelaghuśabdeṃḍaśekharākhye siddhāṃtakaumudīvyākhyāne uttarārdhasamāptam // saṃvat 1847 mītivai - (f. 183r).
Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 183r); first section of manuscript (f. 85-136) is in a different hand, the paper is older, and likely is an earlier date than this.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red or black line.
Folios 137-183 are written in a second scribal hand, and the paper appears to be much newer than the first section of the manuscript (f. 85-136).
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 2584 (UP 221).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 221

OCLC:

823043678