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Title

Authors

• Yāska

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970675833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954471649
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7067583

Publisher

Language

Summary

Early grammar explaining the meanings of words, especially in their Vedic context; includes rules of word formation, roots, etymologies, and a glossary of terms.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Nairukta uttaraṣaṣṭka from colophon (f. 15r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms that includes an elephant (possibly a war elephant) and palm trees. An illegible name starting with a C and the initials D.B. & C. appear on some folios.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vedic philology
• Sanskrit language--Grammar
• Sanskrit language--Etymology
• Sanskrit language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc

Genres

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

Licenses

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