Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Seventeenth-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It contains several sections of the Siddhāntakaumudī, including the Pūrvārdha, the Tiṅanta, and the Uttarārdha (which is subdivided into the Kṛdanta and the Liṅgānuśasanasūtravṛtti). Some parts are fragmentary and incomplete, although most of the text is present.

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 5, f. 61v).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
419 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-31, 33-34, [i], 35-126; (Part 2) 84-85; (Part 3) 5-10; (Part 4) 10-33; (Part 5) 109-161; (Part 6) 1-125; (Part 7) 1-82, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrī bhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃ pūrvārddhaṃ samāptam sa[ṃvat] 1871 (Part 5, f. 161v).
Dated saṃvat 1871 (1814) (Part 5, f. 161v).
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 or black line through most of manuscript. Cross-hatched border in pencil on cover (f. 1r). Several folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
Manuscript written in three different hands.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Notes on former owners or sellers.

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 2537 (UP 244).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 244

OCLC:

825821666