Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century grammarian from the Mauni family in Vārāṇasī. Son of Raghunāthabhaṭṭa and grandson of Govarddhanabhaṭṭa.

Summary:

Manuscript is a grammatical treatise and is also a commentary on Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī. Manuscript is the Vaidikakhaṇḍa part of the text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 46v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnmanpaunikulatilakāyamānaśrīgovarddhanabhadātmajaraghunāthabhaṭṭāṃgajena jayakṛṣyena kṛtāyāṃ siddāṃtakaumudīvyākhyāyāṃ sub[o]dhinyāṃ vaidikakhaṃḍaṃ samāptim amamat (f. 46).
A single wooden board with a beveled edge supports the manuscript.
Dated saṃvat 1812 (1755) (f. 46).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 2567 (UP 1725).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1725.

OCLC:

935536706