Nairukta uttaraṣaṭka. Adhyāya 1, circa 1700-1850.
नैरुक्त उत्तरषट्क. अध्याय १,

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Yāska.

Standardized Title:

Nirukta. Selections

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vedic philology.

Sanskrit language--Grammar.

Sanskrit language.

Sanskrit language--Etymology.

Sanskrit language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Controlled vocabularies.

Physical Description:

1 item (15 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2022

Other Title:

Nairukta uttaraṣaṣṭka

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Early grammar explaining the meanings of words, especially in their Vedic context; includes rules of word formation, roots, etymologies, and a glossary of terms.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Nairukta uttaraṣaṣṭka from colophon (f. 15r).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti nairukte uttaraṣaṣṭke prathamo 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 15r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Watermarks of a coat of arms that includes an elephant (possibly a war elephant) and palm trees. An illegible name starting with a C and the initials D.B. & C. appear on some folios.

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 346 (UP 2022).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2022.

OCLC:

954471649