Details

Other Title:

Laghuśabdenduśekhara

Subjects:

Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita. Siddhāntakaumudī.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, also referred to as Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa, is the son of Satī and Śiva Bhaṭṭa Upādhyāya; a grammatical commentator from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Summary:

Manuscript is a grammatical treatise and part of a super-commentary on the Kṛdanta section of the Siddhāntakaumudī by Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita, which deals with word affixes (kṛt) and how meaning is changed (for example, changing roots to nouns).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 84v); alternate title Laghuśabdenduśekhara supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
85 leaves foliated [i], 1-84, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī upādhyāyopanāmakaśivabhaṭṭasutasatīgarbhajanāgeśaśbhaṭṭakṛte śabdaduśekhararsiddhāṃtakaumudīvyākyākhyāyāṃ kṛdaṃtasamāptaṃ // (f. 84v).
Mistakes are 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 2589 (UP 1730).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1730.

OCLC:

935558563