Details

Standardized Title:

Prauḍhamanoramā. Selections

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita. Siddhāntakaumudī.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.

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:

Commentary composed by Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita on his own grammatical text Siddhāntakaumudī. Manuscript contains only a small section of the larger text, likely part of the opening section.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 10-17 lines per leaf.
Scribe is Vināyaka Samasrabudhya, son of Kṛṣṇa Samasrabudhya (f. 4v).
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: prauḍhamanoramāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudInyākhyāyāṃ pūrvārdhasamāptim agamat // (f. 4v).
Dated śaka 1714 (1792) (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
Watermarks of a coat of arms.

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 2605 (UP 1720).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1720.

Contributor:

Samasrabudhya, Vināyaka (Son of Kṛṣṇa Samasrabudhya), scribe.

OCLC:

935524267