Bhūṣaṇasāra, circa 1700-1850.
भूषणसार

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa.

Contributor:

Āpadeva.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit language--Grammar.

Sanskrit language.

Semantics.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (43 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 196

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Also known as Koṇḍabhaṭṭa, a grammarian who lived in the early 17th century and was the son of Raṅgojī and nephew of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita.

Summary:

Manuscript on grammar with a main "root" text and an extensive commentary running above and below the main text. The main text appears to be the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, and the commentary is called the Sphoṭanirūpaṇa and is by Āpadeva a 17th-century grammarian and author. The commentary focuses on the grammatical theory of sphoṭa, which distinguishes between meaning and sound.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 43r).

Written in 11-16 lines per leaf.

43 leaves foliated 1-43, upper left verso.

Colophon: śrīmadbhūṣaṇasāre 'smin vṛttaṃ sphoṭanirūpaṇaṃ // (f. 43r).

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 three to four black lines.

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 2710 (UP 196).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 196

Contains:

Sphoṭanirūpaṇa.

OCLC:

812169131