Details

Subjects:

Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita. Siddhāntakaumudī.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity) -- Art.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Illuminations (visual works)
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Art.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

Grammatical commentary on the author's own grammatical text Siddhāntakaumudī. There is a commentary, possibly the Laghuśabdaratna by Hari Dīkṣita, running parallel, above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete. Painting of the deity Gaṇeśa on the cover with what looks to be a dog or monkey faced man serving as an attendant. There are large doodles and designs drawn in different parts of the text in possibly a second scribal hand.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); title of super-commentary Laghuśabdaratna supplied by cataloger.
Scribe is Vināyaka Sahasabudhi (f. 1r).
Written in 8-17 lines per leaf.
173 leaves foliated 1-173, upper left and lower right verso.
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.
Watermarks of letters and some kind of animal, possibly a lion on its hind legs with a crown.

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 2609 (UP 1713).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1713.

Contributor:

Sahasabudhi, Vināyaka, scribe.

Contains:

Hari Dīkṣita. Laghuśabdaratna.

OCLC:

935215050