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Madhyasiddhāntakaumudī, circa 1700-1850.
मध्यसिद्धान्तकौमुदी
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 235
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Varadarāja.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit language--Grammar.
- Sanskrit language.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 235
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- 17th-century grammarian and student of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita, known for his commentary and abridgements of his teacher's work.
- Summary:
- Manuscript was used for consultation or study and is an abridgment of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita's well-known grammatical treatise and commentary, the Siddhāntakaumudī. Manuscript is missing some folios.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 23r).
- Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
- 20 leaves foliated 1-8, 11-20, 22-23, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti madhyasiddhāntakaumudyā suvaṃtaṃ samāptaṃ // likhitaṃ dāmodaravyāsena (f. 23r).
- Scribe is Dāmodaravyāsa (f. 23r).
- 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 and single red and 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 2622 (UP 235).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 235.
- OCLC:
- 824133390
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