Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntakaumudī. Selections

Other Title:

Śekhara

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

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:

Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement of and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It is part of the Siddhāntakaumudī. There is a super-commentary by Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, the Laghuśabdenduśekhara, running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r); commentary title Śekhara from final cover page (f. 5v).
Written in 11-15 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-2, 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudhāṃ pūrvārdhaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 5r).
Dated śaka 1700 (1778) (f. 5r).
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 double red line.
Watermark 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 2565 (UP 1752).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1752.

Contains:

Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active 1670-1750. Laghuśabdenduśekhara.

OCLC:

936582765