Details

Subjects:

Govindaṭhakkura. Kāvyapradīpa.
Poetics.
Sanskrit poetry.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Rāmacandra (f. 26r), who is also referred to as Rāmabhaṭṭa earlier in the text (f. 18r).

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation and study and is a kind of treatise on Sanskrit poetry, poetics (alamkāraśāstra), and rhetoric; it is a supercommentary about a commentary (vyākhyā) written by Govindaṭhakkura on his own work, the Kāvyapradīpa. Manuscript comprises most of the fourth, all of the fifth, and part of the sixth sections (ullāsa) of the supercommentary.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 18r).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left verso; foliation occurred after partial manuscript was separated from larger text.
Internal colophon: iti śrīmatpadavākyapramāṇābhijñaśrīmattatsadrāmabhaṭṭasūrivarātmajarīvaidyanāthaviracitāyaṃ kāvyapradīpavyākhyā[ṃ] caturtha ullāsaḥ // (f. 18r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red on first two folios; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.

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 2402 (UP 495).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 495

OCLC:

842412195