Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Versification.
Sanskrit language.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author also known as Rāmadeva Ciraṃjīva.

Summary:

Work on poetic meter in Sanskrit (prosody or versification).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Small diagram of a prastāra, outlining the relationship of short and long vowels.
Colophon: iti śrīcirajjīvabhaṭṭācāryyakṛtā vṛttaratnāvalī saṃpūrṇam śubhaṃ bhūpāt (f. 12v).
Dated saṃvat 1913 (1856) (f. 12v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 2806 (UP 2595).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2595.

OCLC:

970816570