Siddhāntakaumudī, circa 1600-1812
सिद्धान्तकौमुदी, १६००-१८१२

Description
Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It is the complete text of the Siddhāntakaumudī and comprises three sections, including the Pūrvārdha, the Tiṅanta, and the Uttarārdha (which is subdivided into the Kṛdanta and the Liṅgānuśasanasūtravṛtti).
Creator
Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita
Form
manuscripts (documents)
commentaries
treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1600
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Sanskrit language -- Grammar
Collection
Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (441 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 28 cm
Notes
Seventeenth-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.
Title from colophon (Part 4, f. 64v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
441 leaves foliated [Part 1] 1-189; [Part 2] 1-115; [Part 3] 1-73; [Part 4] 1-64, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviravitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃm uttarārdvapāṇinīyaliṃgānuśāsanasutravṛttiḥ samāptā // saṃvat / 1869 // miti cait[r]a kṛṣṇapakṣe catu[r]thī (Part 4, f. 64v).
Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (Part 4, f. 64v); the manuscript can be divided into two major components, Part 1. which is older, likely from the seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and Parts 2-4. which are from the early 19th century.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many of which are in another scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line through Part 1 (f. 1-189). Part 1 is written by one unnamed scribe and Parts 2-4 is written in a second scribal hand.
Non-Latin script record.
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32n4zm3s
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 230
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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