Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntakaumudī. Selections

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Gender.
Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
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 and deals specifically with gender of words. It is part of the second part of the Siddhāntakaumudī called the Liṅgānuśāsana.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in 11-27 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadbhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃ uttarorddhapāṇinīyali[ṅgānu]śāsanavṛttiḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 8v).
Watermark of a coat of arms.
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.
Scribe is Dhuḍirāja Jyotiṣa, the son of Kṛṣṇa Jyotiṣa (f. 8v).

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 2550 (UP 1709).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1709.

Contributor:

Jyotiṣa, Dhuḍirāja (Son of Kṛṣṇa Jyotiṣa), scribe.

OCLC:

934727293