Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntakaumudī. Selections

Other Title:

Samāsa

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
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 a part of the Siddhāntakaumudī that deals with Sanskrit compounds (samāsa). Manuscript is incomplete. A flower is created on the back of the manuscript using primarily the blessing/mantra Śrī as well as mantras praising the deities Śiva and Rāma.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins; alternate title Samāsa found in a colophon incorporated into a floral design at the end of the manuscript (f. 86v).
Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
69 leaves foliated 18-86, 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.
Colophon: iti samāsaḥ samāptāḥ // (f. 86v).

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 2555 (UP 1717).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1717.

OCLC:

935218401