Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntakaumudī. Tiṅanta

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
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 text called the Tiṅanta.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 95r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
96 leaves foliated 1-95, 95, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃ pūrvā[r]ddhaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 95r).
Dated śaka 1665 (1743) (f. 95r).
Single wooden board with images and text glued in from a newspaper. Images are Hindu and are copied of drawings of the deity Gaṇeśa with worshipers, and others. There is a date of saṃvat 1933 (1876) in the newspaper text.
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 triple 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 2545 (UP 1700).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1700.

OCLC:

934725699