Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Verb.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

Commentary composed by Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita on his own grammatical text Siddhāntakaumudī; primarily a treatise on verbal forms ending with "tiṅ" (tiṅanta).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 105r).
Written in 9-14 lines per leaf.
103 leaves foliated 1-2, 5-105, middle left and middle right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidIkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudīvyākhyāṃ prauṭhamanoramāyāṃ tiṅantakāṇu sāmāptam // śūbhamṃastu // śūbhasamvat 1839 harimiśrasya lipir virājate hi sūtarā[?] // rāmo vijayate tarastu // (f. 105r).
Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 105r); date is written in a second hand at the end along with the name of an owner of the manuscript; text may thus date earlier than this date.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line; front folio treated with yellow turmeric powder (f. 1r).

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 2602 (UP 232).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 232

Contributor:

Harimiśra, former owner.

OCLC:

823375911