Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century grammarian and student of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita, known for his commentary and abridgements of his teacher's work.

Summary:

Manuscript was used for consultation or study and is an abridgment of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's well-known grammatical treatise and commentary, the Siddhāntakaumudī. Manuscript is missing some folios.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23r).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated 1-8, 11-20, 22-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti madhyasiddhāntakaumudyā suvaṃtaṃ samāptaṃ // likhitaṃ dāmodaravyāsena (f. 23r).
Scribe is Dāmodaravyāsa (f. 23r).
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 and single red and black lines.
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 2622 (UP 235).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 235.

Contributor:

Dāmodaravyāsa, scribe.

OCLC:

824133390