Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntakaumudī. Liṅgānuśāsanānta

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Accents and accentuation.
Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement of and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It is part of the Siddhāntakaumudī, the Liṅgānuśāsanānta.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 63v).
Watermarks of Lumsden & Sons 1862, John Miller Glasgow 1863, and a coat of arms of Britannia.
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
63 leaves foliated 1-63, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāliṃgānuśāsanāṃtāsiddhāṃtakaumudīvirāmaṃpakāṇa // uttarārdhāṃtaragata kṛdaṃtaprakaraṇaṃ samāptāṃ // (f. 63v).
Dated śaka 1786 (1864) (f. 63v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; blue European paper.
Scribe is Dāmodāra Śāstrin Nānāli.

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 2593 (UP 1693).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1693.

Contributor:

Nānāli, Dāmodāra Śāstrin, scribe.

OCLC:

933916886