Paribhāṣenduśekhara, 1795.
परिभाषेन्दुशेखर

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active 1670-1750.

Contributor:

Sahasrabudhi, Vināyaka, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit language--Grammar.

Sanskrit language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (50 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 29 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1705

Place of Publication:

1795.

१७९५.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, also referred to as Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa (f. 50r), is the son of Satī and Śiva Bhaṭṭa Upādhyāya (f. 50r); a grammatical commentator from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 50r).

Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.

50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmadupādhyāyopanāmakaśivabhaṭṭasūtasatīgarbhajanāgojIbhaṭṭakṛtaparibhāṣeṃduśekharaḥ aphāṇi // (f. 50r).

Dated śaka 1717 (1795) (f. 50r).

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 red line.

Drawing of the deity Viṣṇu and a female attendant on back cover (f. 50v); floral pattern drawn on front cover (f. 1r).

A single wooden board supports the manuscript. It has newspaper clippings of various animals arranged and glued on the board.

Scribe is Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi (f. 50r).

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 2452 (UP 1705).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1705.

OCLC:

934726937