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Title

Madhyasiddhāntakaumudī
मध्यसिद्धान्तकौमुदी

Authors

• Varadarāja, active 17th century

Other related names

• Dāsa, Vaiṣṇavalakṣmaṇa, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1747
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968713243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936559867
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6871324

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript was used for consultation or study and is an abridgment (laghu) of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's well-known grammatical treatise and commentary, the Siddhāntakaumudī; the second section is called the Tiṅanta.

Notes

• Title from abbreviations in margins; alternate title Laghusiddhāntakaumudī supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 105 leaves foliated 1-105, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Vaiṣṇavalakṣmaṇa Dāsa (f. 105r).
   
• 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 single black line; some folios are covered with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

Extent

1 item (105 leaves) : 12 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti lakārārthaprakriyā // iti tiḍataprakriyāḥ // śubham astu // (f. 105r).

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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