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

Title

Authors

• Yāska

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780343503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122468575
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178034

Publisher

Language

Summary

Late Vedic work; a collection of words grouped into thematic categories, with some brief annotations; a kind of glossary or thesaurus; five sections (adhyāya); groups of similes, synonyms, metonyms, etc. dealing with the natural world, human physiology, as well as epithets of gods and goddesses.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Naighaṇṭa from back title page (f. 21v).
   
• Written 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: gmā / jmā / kṣmā / kṣā / kṣamā / kṣoṇī / kṣitiḥ / (f. 1v).
   
• Accented in red; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red; marginal corrections by different hand, some in pencil; double vertical lines in red mark margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vedic philology

Genres

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

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