Details

Standardized Title:

Laghusiddhāntakaumudī

Subjects:

Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita. Siddhāntakaumudī.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century grammarian and student of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita, known for his commentary and abridgements of his teacher's work.

Summary:

Manuscript was used for consultation or study and is an abridgment (laghu) of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's well-known grammatical treatise and commentary, the Siddhāntakaumudī; the second section is called the Tiṅanta.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins; alternate title Laghusiddhāntakaumudī supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
105 leaves foliated 1-105, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti lakārārthaprakriyā // iti tiḍataprakriyāḥ // śubham astu // (f. 105r).
Scribe is Vaiṣṇavalakṣmaṇa Dāsa (f. 105r).
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 single black line; some folios are covered with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.

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 2625 (UP 1747).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1747.

Contributor:

Dāsa, Vaiṣṇavalakṣmaṇa, scribe.

OCLC:

936559868