Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Seventeenth-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It is the complete text of the Siddhāntakaumudī and comprises three sections, including the Pūrvārdha, the Tiṅanta, and the Uttarārdha (which is subdivided into the Kṛdanta and the Liṅgānuśasanasūtravṛtti).

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 4, f. 64v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
441 leaves foliated [Part 1] 1-189; [Part 2] 1-115; [Part 3] 1-73; [Part 4] 1-64, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviravitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃm uttarārdvapāṇinīyaliṃgānuśāsanasutravṛttiḥ samāptā // saṃvat / 1869 // miti cait[r]a kṛṣṇapakṣe catu[r]thī (Part 4, f. 64v).
Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (Part 4, f. 64v); the manuscript can be divided into two major components, Part 1. which is older, likely from the seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and Parts 2-4. which are from the early 19th century.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many of which are in another scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line through Part 1 (f. 1-189). Part 1 is written by one unnamed scribe and Parts 2-4 is written in a second scribal hand.
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 2535 (UP 230).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 230.

OCLC:

823480532