Paribhāṣenduśekhara, circa 1700-1850.
परिभाषेन्दुशेखर

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active 1670-1750.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Sanskrit language--Grammar.

Genre:

• treatises
• commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (71 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 240

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Referred to as Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa in the colophon (f. 71v); is the son of Satī and Śiva Bhaṭṭa Upādhyāya.

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation and teaching. It is a grammatical commentary, exposition, and treatise on the on the rules (paribhāṣā) governing aspects of the Pāṇini school of Sanskrit grammar.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 71v).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 71 leaves foliated 1-71, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrīnāgojībhaṭṭakṛtaḥ paribhāṣeṃduśekharaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 71v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions 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 2454 (UP 240).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 240.

OCLC:

824502610