Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntakaumudī. Selections

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

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 (f. 1-136v) with the first part of the Kṛdanta (f. 136v-169r).

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 136v).
Written in 8-17 lines per leaf.
169 leaves foliated 1-169, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti bhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃ tiṅantaṃ samāptṃ // (f. 136v).
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 red line at the beginning of the manuscript; there is a floral patterned border on the front cover (f. 1r); border of opening and second folio painted with purple wash.
Part of a sticker and the numbers 5 x 3 on the particle board supporting the manuscript.

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 2548 (UP 1703).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1703.

OCLC:

934726706