Details

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:

Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, also referred to as Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa (f. 50r), is the son of Satī and Śiva Bhaṭṭa Upādhyāya (f. 50r); a grammatical commentator from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation and teaching. It is a grammatical commentary, exposition, and treatise on the on the rules governing aspects of the Pāṇini school of Sanskrit grammar.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 50r).
Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadupādhyāyopanāmakaśivabhaṭṭasūtasatīgarbhajanāgojIbhaṭṭakṛtaparibhāṣeṃduśekharaḥ aphāṇi // (f. 50r).
Dated śaka 1717 (1795) (f. 50r).
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.
Drawing of the deity Viṣṇu and a female attendant on back cover (f. 50v); floral pattern drawn on front cover (f. 1r).
A single wooden board supports the manuscript. It has newspaper clippings of various animals arranged and glued on the board.
Scribe is Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi (f. 50r).

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 2452 (UP 1705).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1705.

Contributor:

Sahasrabudhi, Vināyaka, scribe.

OCLC:

934726937