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Nirukta pūrvaṣaṭka, circa 1700-1850.
निरुक्तपूर्वषट्क
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Yāska.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vedic philology.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (43 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 84
- Other Title:
- Pūrvaṣaṭka.
- Naurukta pūrvaṣaṭka.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Vedic supplementary material, Vedāṅga, grammar; first four ādyāya (chapters) and beginning of fifth ādyāya of the commentary gloss attributed to Yāska.
- Notes:
- Title from chapter colophon (f. 10v); alternate title Pūrvaṣaṭka from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Naurukta pūrvaṣaṭka derived from chapter colophon (f. 43r).
- Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
- 43 leaves foliated 1-41, upper left and lower right verso, 42-43 upper left verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Non-Latin script record.
- Cited in:
- Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 333 (UP 84).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 84
- OCLC:
- 757954685
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