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Laghuśabdenduśekhara, circa 1700-1850.
लघुशब्देन्दुशेखर
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 229
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active 1670-1750.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit language--Grammar.
- Sanskrit language--Grammar--Religious aspects.
- Sanskrit language.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Treatises.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (262 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 29 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 229
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, also referred to as Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa, is the son of Satī and Śiva Bhaṭṭa Upādhyāya; a grammatical commentator from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- Summary:
- Manuscript is employed for consultation or teaching and is a grammatical commentary on Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī, particularly emphasizing religious aspects or qualities of traditional grammatical treatises as well as elevating the ancient grammarians such as Pāṇini and Patāñjali to a semi-divine status. Manuscript lacks an end.
- Notes:
- Title from marginal abbreviations throughout.
- Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
- 262 leaves foliated [Part 1] 1-3, 17-38; [Part 2] 35, 51-54, 54-199, 199-216, 218-286, upper left and lower right verso.
- 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 double black line.
- Manuscript was written by two different scribes and combines two separate manuscripts: the first part is comprised of folios 1-3 and 17-38, while the second is comprised of folios 35 and 51 through 286 (with some parts missing therein). There are two folios numbered 54, the first of which is done in a third hand.
- 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 2586 (UP 229).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 229.
- OCLC:
- 823479967
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