Details

Standardized Title:

Amarakośa. Selections

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Lexicography.
Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit language -- Dictionaries.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is one of the oldest Sanskrit dictionaries and lexicons; contains the second section (kāṇḍa) of the text. Contains a commentary by Bhānujī Dīkṣita running parallel above and below the main text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 205r); title of commentary Vyākhyāsudhā from commentary colophon (f. 205r).
Written in 7-12 lines per leaf.
205 leaves foliated 1-205, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṃgānuśāsane // bhūmyādikāṃḍo dvitīyaḥ sāṃga eva samarthitaḥ // (f. 205r).
Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.

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 2728 (UP 1483

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1483.

Contains:

Bhānuji Dīkṣita. Vyākhyāsudhā.

OCLC:

911510178