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Title

Siddhāntakaumudī
सिद्धान्तकौमुदी

Authors

• Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1700
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968435683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/934725698
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6843568

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement of and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It is part of the text called the Tiṅanta.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 95r).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 96 leaves foliated 1-95, 95, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1665 (1743) (f. 95r).
   
• Single wooden board with images and text glued in from a newspaper. Images are Hindu and are copied of drawings of the deity Gaṇeśa with worshipers, and others. There is a date of saṃvat 1933 (1876) in the newspaper text.
   
• 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 triple black line.
   

Extent

1 item (96 leaves) : 11 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti bhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviracitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃ pūrvā[r]ddhaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 95r).

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Grammar--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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