Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Amarasiṃha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964249613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/911507926
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31j97n71

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

circa 1700-1850

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is one of the oldest Sanskrit dictionaries and lexicons; contains the first section (kāṇḍa) of the text. Work also known by the title Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana and contains a commentary running parallel above and below the main text.

Notes

• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana from colophon (f. 29v); title of commentary Amarakośaṭīkā from commentary colophon (f. 29v).
   
• Colophon of commentary: iti sukaṭhanakaropākhyam amarakośaṭīkāyāṃ śiśubodhinyāṃ svarādi kāṃḍaḥ prathamaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // vikārisaṃvacharaphālguṇavadhyapratipadābhomavāsaretāsa 12 idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptāṃ // (f. 29v-30r).
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Sanskrit
• Sanskrit language--Lexicography
• Sanskrit language
• Sanskrit language--Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Sanskrit
• Sanskrit language--Lexicography

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Dictionaries
• Dictionaries
• Manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit
• Dictionaries
• Commentaries

Licenses

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