Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th- or early 18th-century grammarian and Sanskrit commentator, possibly a contemporary of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita.

Summary:

Manuscript contains a grammatical treatise and commentary on the section of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī dealing with inflected verbal bases (tiṅanta). Manuscript is incomplete; it lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 155r).
Written in 9-16 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 148-155, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīvāmaneṃdrasvāmicaraṇāraviṃdasevakajāneṃdrasarasvatīkṛtau siddhāṃtakaumudīvyākhyāyāṃ tatvavodhinyāṃ tiṇtakāṃḍaṃ samāptiṃ phaphāṇa(?) // (f. 155r).
Dated saṃvat 1800, 11 Mārgasirsa (Monday, December 2, 1743) (f. 155r).
Scribe isJāgannāthabhaṭṭa Ghuṣtra (f. 155r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red. Vertical margins marked with double black line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bālakṛṣṇa Deva in saṃvat 1874 or 1817 A.D. (f. 155r).

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 2581 (UP 1756).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1756.

Contributor:

Ghuṣtra, Jāgannāthabhaṭṭa, scribe.
Deva, Bālakṛṣṇa, former owner.

OCLC:

937710173