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Title

Prauḍhamanoramā
प्रौढमनोरमा

Authors

• Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita
• Hari Dīkṣita

Other related names

• Sahasabudhi, Vināyaka, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1713
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968462243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/935215049
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6846224

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Grammatical commentary on the author's own grammatical text Siddhāntakaumudī. There is a commentary, possibly the Laghuśabdaratna by Hari Dīkṣita, running parallel, above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete. Painting of the deity Gaṇeśa on the cover with what looks to be a dog or monkey faced man serving as an attendant. There are large doodles and designs drawn in different parts of the text in possibly a second scribal hand.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v); title of super-commentary Laghuśabdaratna supplied by cataloger.
   
• Scribe is Vināyaka Sahasabudhi (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 173 leaves foliated 1-173, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 line.
   
• Watermarks of letters and some kind of animal, possibly a lion on its hind legs with a crown.
   

Extent

1 item (173 leaves) : 11 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Grammar
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)--Art

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illustrations and floral border, f. 1r
• fol. 82v-83r — Ink drawing, f. 83r
• fol. 83v-84r — Ink drawing, f. 84r
• fol. 86v-87r — Large writing and doodles, f. 86v
• fol. 117v-118r — Floral line drawing, f. 117v
• fol. 157v-158r — Ink drawings, f. 157v