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Title

Śabdakaustubha
शब्दकौस्तुभ

Authors

• Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 201
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958423463503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/813296616
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5842346

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Grammatical treatise and commentary that develops and expands on Patañjali's early work, the Mahābhāṣya ('Great commentary'), a treatment of Pāṇini's sūtras. Mansucript comprises nine sections, although foliation occurs in three parts.

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 3, f. 46v).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 376 leaves foliated (Part 1) [i], 1-263; (Part 2) 1-5, 5-6, 6-63; (Part 3) 1-46, [i], upper left and lower right verso; the first part comprises the first seven sections of the text, the second part is the eighth section, and the third part is the ninth section of the work.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Several folios colored yellow.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (376 leaves) : 10 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīvidvanmukuṭaratnasyaṃ lakṣmo 'dharasūreḥ sūnunā bhaṭṭojidīkṣitena kṛte ṣabdakaustubhe prathamādhyāyasya prathame pāde navamamānhikaṃ pādaścāpaṃ samāptaḥ // (f. 46v).

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Grammar

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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