{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Vārāṇasī." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Vārāṇasī by Prof. R. Griffith from the Benares Sanskrit College for Prof. E. B. Cowell in 1878 (see ULIB 7/3/55)." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "6 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1934 Vikrama / 1877 CE." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Add.1709" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Griffith, Ralph T. H." }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
On folio 1 recto<\/a>, University Library stamp and note written by Henry Bradshaw<\/a> in pencil: \"N° 2 6 leaves\" (see above under Binding). The classmark \"MS. Add.1709\" is written on the right margin, parallel to the short side. <\/div>
On folio 6 verso<\/a>, the number 18 is written in Devanāgari script. <\/div><\/div>

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

Running title (Lo°<\/i>), top left margin, verso.<\/div>
Running invocation (Rāma°<\/i>), bottom right margin, above folio number, verso. <\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Vedalakṣaṇa; Śikṣā" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Bradshaw, Henry; Cowell, Edward B." }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "LVP Add.1709, direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Lomaśa; Gargācārya" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Lomaśaśikṣā" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Cardboard covers, library binding. Paper sleeve, original binding.<\/p>

On the paper sleeve, the title has been written in Latin script and black ink: \"n°2 Lomashishiksha\". A note has been added by Henry Bradshaw<\/a> in pencil: \"6 leaves may 8 /78 n° 2 (no n° 1)\"; the number 2 refers to the sequence of 'Sanskrit MSS recd. from Benares, sanctioned May 8, 1878', as listed on folio 17v in List Add.923-1827.<\/p>

On folio 6v<\/a>, a catch number (18) is to be found, referring to manuscript Add.1710<\/a> and to manuscript Add.1711<\/a>.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, in good condition." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Devanāgarī in black ink.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ oṃ <\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> lomaśinyāṃ pravakṣyāmi gargācaryeṇa ciṃtitāṃ sābhidhānāṃ yathoktāṃ tv ācāryavacane [1v2] yathā 1 hrasvaṃ dīrghaṃ tathā vṛddham abhigītaṃ tu sāmagāḥ muhur mṛdaṃgavat_ kuryuḥ saṃpātotthānasaṃjñāvat_ 2 kena kaṃpā[1v3]vitaḥ kaṃpaḥ saṃyogo yena kaṃpate kiṃ cākaṃpa iti prokto yenāsau kaṃpa ucyate 3 <\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [6r1]<\/a> yathā bālasya sarpasya niḥśvāsopahatasya ca evam ūṣmā prayoktavyo hakāraparivarjitaḥ 1 yathā dha[6r2]nuṣā yatena kṣipte śareṣu narguṇaḥ svasthānaṃ pratipadyeta tadvad dhastagatasvaraḥ 2 śūnyagṛhe piśācas tu garjate na ca dṛśya[6r3]te evaṃ yakārā vaktavyā dhiyagnirjmanidarśanaṃ 3 khaṃḍa 8 <\/div>
Final Rubric:<\/b> [6r3]<\/a> iti prathamaḥ prapāṭakaḥ samāptaḥ ||   || [6r4] iti lomaśīśkṣā samāptā ||   ||<\/div>
Colophon:<\/b> [6r4]<\/a> śubhaṃ bhūyāt_ śrīḥ saṃvat_ 1934 bhādrapadamāse śuklapakṣe [6r5] 14 śukravāsare ||       ||       ||<\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

The Lomaśīśikṣā<\/i> is a śikṣā<\/i> (\"Teaching [on Pronunciation]\") belonging to the Sāmavedic school of recitation and included in the branch of knowledge known as vedalakṣaṇa<\/i>. The Lomaśīśikṣā<\/i> contains ca. 74 verses distributed in eight khaṇḍa<\/i>s (\u201csection\u201d). As the great majority of the śikṣā<\/i>s, it does not present a comprehensive account of vedalakṣaṇa<\/i> knowledge, but focuses on specific phonetic and phonological observations as well as on aspects of Vedic recitation, in particular the musical notes. This manuscript, written in 1877, has been written by the same scribe who wrote the Keśavīśikṣā<\/i> (Add.1710<\/a>) and the Laghvamoghanandinīśikṣā<\/i> (Add.1711<\/a>). These three manuscripts were most probably produced as a single collection, as they share many common features: paper and layout are identical, and at the end of the present manuscript a catch number (18) is written, which is repeated on the firsto folio of manuscript Add.1710<\/a> and on the verso of manuscript Add.1711<\/a> (which consists of a single folio). <\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Lomaśīśikṣā" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Giovanni Ciotti and Daniele Cuneo" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper.

Folio height: ca. 11.7 cm, width: ca. 27.7 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: 5.5 cm, width: 21 cm.

7 lines per page, approximately 45 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 4 mm. Interlinear space height: 4 mm.

Impressed marginal frame lines and impressed double ruling.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "11 May 1878 (University Library stamp)." }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.<\/p>

2. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

ULIB 7/3/55 = Bradshaw, Henry, Notes on the collections of Oriental, Thibetan and 'Additional' manuscripts [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1870-80).<\/div>
List Add.923-1827 = List of Additional Manuscripts 923-1827 [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1878).<\/div>
List of Oriental MSS. Class Catalogue of Oriental MSS. [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1900\u2013).<\/div>
LVP = de La Vallée Poussin, Louis and Caroline Mary Ridding, U[niversity.L[ibrary].C[ambridge]. Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS [unpublished card catalogue]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1916).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

Cambridge,Cambridge University Library: Add.1925<\/a> and Add.1938<\/a>. <\/div>
For a complete manuscript bibliography, see Parameswara Aithal (1991: 505).<\/div><\/div>

Edition(s)<\/b><\/p>

Pāṭhaka, Yugalakiṣora Vyāsa (ed.), A collection of Śikshás by Yájñavalkya and Others, with Commentaries on Some of Them. Edited and Annotated by Paṇḍit Yugalakisora Vyasa<\/i>, Benares Sanskrit Series no. 10 (Benares: B.D. Das, 1889).<\/div>
Chandra, Lokesh and Raghu Vira, Sanskrit Texts on Phonetics. A Collection of Śikṣā Texts Reproduced by Lokesh Chandra from the Papers of Raghu Vira<\/i>, Śata-piṭaka Series vol. 282 (New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture, 1981).<\/div>
Tripāṭhī, Rāmaprasāda (ed.), Śikṣāsaṃgrahaḥ<\/i> (Vārāṇasī: Prakāśanādhikārī, Sampūrṇānandasaṃskṛtaviśvavidyālayaḥ, 1989).<\/div><\/div>
Allen, W. Sidney, Phonetics in Ancient India<\/i> (London: Oxford University Press, 1953).<\/div>
Ciotti, Giovanni, The Representation of Sanskrit Speech-Sounds: Philological and Linguistic Historiographies<\/i> (PhD thesis Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2013).<\/div>
Kielhorn, Franz, Remarks on the Sikshâs, with an Account of the Sikshâs Collected<\/i> (Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1876).<\/div>
Mishra, Vidhata, A Critical Study of Sanskrit Phonetics<\/i> 1st , Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies vol. 83 (Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 1972).<\/div>
Parameswara Aithal, K, Veda-Lakṣaṇa. Vedic Ancillary Literature. A Descriptive Bibliography Compiled by K. Parameswara Aithal<\/i>, Beiträge zur Südasienforschung 143 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991).<\/div>
Varma, Siddheshwar, Critical Studies in the Phonetic Observation of Indian Grammarians (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1929). <\/div><\/div>
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