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Title

Nairukta uttaraṣaṭka
नैरुक्त उत्तरषट्क

Authors

• Yāska

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 21
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/399893036
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178029

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Early grammar explaining the meanings of words, especially in their Vedic context; rules of word formation, roots, etymologies, etc., as well as a glossary of terms; opens (f. 1v) with text corresponding to the seventh chapter of the critical edition edited by Lakshman Sarup (London: 1920-9).

Notes

• Written 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 117 leaves foliated 1-117, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; marginal corrections by different hands; accented in red; word divisions marked in red; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red; double red vertical lines mark margins; some leaves colored blue (f. 108-109, 112-117).
   
• Old newsprint cover; wooden base (broken).
   

Extent

1 item (117 leaves) : 19 x 9 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti nairukte uttaraṣṭke trayodaśo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīgajāṃnanārpaṇama[stu] // athaitasya samāmnāyasyā // 1 // (f. 117v).

Subjects topical

• Vedic philology
• Sanskrit language--Grammar
• Sanskrit language--Dictionaries
• Sanskrit language--Etymology

Genres

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

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