Articles on Th Century Sanskrit
A Forged Agarva Copper-Plate Grant of Sahasrarjuna
By Bharti Shelat, Pravinchandra Parikh · Sambodhi, 1990
This article analyses a pair of copper plates purported to record a land grant issued by the legendary king Sahasrarjuna (Kartavirya). Discovered near Dakor in Gujarat and now kept at the B. J. Institute, the plates are inscribed in Sanskrit using early…
Diksita Manirama
By K. Madhava Krishna Sharma · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1945
The article profiles Diksita Manirama, a prominent scholar associated with the Anup Sanskrit Library and the court of Maharaja Anupsinghji. Manirama came from a learned family of the Gaudavamsa lineage; his father was Gangaramamishra, son of Sivadatta, and he…
Narayanadiksita’s Commentary on the Prakrtapingalastitra
By K. Madhava Krishna Sharma · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1945
The article reports on two manuscripts of Narayanadiksita’s commentary on the Prakrtapingalasutra preserved in the Anup Sanskrit Library. The Prakrtapingalasutra is a treatise on Sanskrit prosody attributed to the grammarian Pingala. Narayanadiksita, son of…