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Title

Siddhāntakaumudī
सिद्धान्तकौमुदी

Authors

• Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 230
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958774493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823472975
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5877449

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for consultation or teaching is an arrangement and commentary on the sūtras of the grammarian Pāṇini. It is the complete text of the Siddhāntakaumudī and comprises three sections, including the Pūrvārdha, the Tiṅanta, and the Uttarārdha (which is subdivided into the Kṛdanta and the Liṅgānuśasanasūtravṛtti).

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 4, f. 64v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 441 leaves foliated [Part 1] 1-189; [Part 2] 1-115; [Part 3] 1-73; [Part 4] 1-64, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (Part 4, f. 64v); the manuscript can be divided into two major components, Part 1. which is older, likely from the seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and Parts 2-4. which are from the early 19th century.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many of which are in another scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line through Part 1 (f. 1-189). Part 1 is written by one unnamed scribe and Parts 2-4 is written in a second scribal hand.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (441 leaves) : 11 x 28 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidīkṣitaviravitāyāṃ siddhāṃtakaumudyāṃm uttarārdvapāṇinīyaliṃgānuśāsanasutravṛttiḥ samāptā // saṃvat / 1869 // miti cait[r]a kṛṣṇapakṣe catu[r]thī (Part 4, f. 64v).

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Grammar

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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