Siddhanta Kaumudi Sanskrit & English Commentaries

Posted on February 5, 2011 by bharateeya

Siddhanta Kaumudi is a celebrated Sanskrit commentary by Bhattoji Dikshita (early 17th century) on the Ashtadhydyi and is believed to be more popular than Panini’s work. It re-arranges the sutras of Panini under appropriate heads and offers exposition that is orderly and easy to follow.

The sutras are arranged in two parts – the first part deals with the rules of interpretation, sandhis, declensions, formation of feminines, case endings, compounds, secondary derivations and the second part with conjugation, primary suffixes, Vedic grammar and accents.

English commentary of Siddhanta Kaumudi by Saradaranjan Ray & Kumudranjan Ray is highly useful to students of Sanskrit grammar who are not capable of studying the Ashtadhyayi or Siddhanta Kaumudi with the help of Sanskrit commentaries.

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http://asi.nic.in/asi_books/446.pdf

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Siddhanta Kaumudi Sanskrit & English Commentaries — 44 Comments

ramachandran ps on February 5, 2011 at 11:19 pm said:

Nice Job.Would be beneficial to all.

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Vishnu Sharma on February 6, 2011 at 4:04 am said:

Thanks! Great!

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Vishnu Sharma on February 6, 2011 at 4:09 am said:

This may sound like asking too much but could yo also post Madya Siddanta Kaumudi with English/Hindi Commentaries and Bhatti Kavya with/without commentaries.

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- bharateeya on February 6, 2011 at 11:13 am said:
  
  Vishnu Sharmaji,
  
  Sorry. I could not find anywhere on the net copies of Madhya Siddhanta Kaumudi with English translation. If someone has, please write to me.
  
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  - Vishnu Sharma on February 6, 2011 at 4:24 pm said:
    
    I also didn’t find Madhya Siddanta but I found at least three different editions of Bhatti Kavya.
    At
    http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
    Just type “bhattikavya” in the ‘title’ window.
    
    But I am not familiar how to download pdf from that site. Seems quite confusing. I hope you will download and upload here with some great information.
    
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- Harshit Shrivastava on April 11, 2013 at 4:51 am said:
  
  Madhya Siddhanta Kaumudi is not available with Eng./Hindi commentaries in public domain. But if you want it with sanskrit commentary, try DLI with barcode: 99999990044381.
  
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anon on February 6, 2011 at 4:46 am said:

Thank you Low Resolution but readable.

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- bharateeya on February 6, 2011 at 11:18 am said:
  
  Sir,
  
  These were not scanned by me. Nor do I have the hard copies of these books. In fact these are from the Digital Library of Archaeological Survey of India. Let us thank the concerned authorities at ASI for providing at least these.
  
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  - bharateeya on February 6, 2011 at 4:40 pm said:
    
    Sharmaji,
    
    I found nearly 15 different editions at DLI. I will mail you the list of different editions of Bhattikavyam available at DLI. It is difficult to know which is best for posting in this blog. Could you suggest which edition of Bhattikavyam will be ideal for posting on this blog?
    
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Hiralal on February 6, 2011 at 7:02 pm said:

A long standing necessity is fulfilled by you. Now try Eng. pdf of Panini Ashtadhyayi. You have been doing a yeoman’s service to the cause of Sanskrit learning.

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S.Jagannatha on February 16, 2011 at 11:05 am said:

I had seen Prof.Saradaranjan Ray’s Siddhantakaumudi(first volume and Taddhita volume only) at our library twentyfive years ago. I had copied the whole first volume manually in an exercise book. I wished to have complete set of the work.But I could not have the other volumes anywhere.Now, it is because of your enthusiasm of spreading Sanskrit knowledge,all volumes are available to the Sanskrit circle.The photocopy is very gorgeous.
I thank you very much.

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- bharateeya on February 16, 2011 at 11:51 am said:
  
  Jagannathaji,
  
  Glad to hear from you after a long time. Thanks.
  
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NITYAMUKTANANDA on August 19, 2011 at 1:14 pm said:

This book of sanscrit grammer is very useful for the student of panini sutra. and they can make their study with this book with proper guide.

THANKS FOR THE LIBRARY AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS WORK.

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Sudipta Munsi on November 16, 2011 at 3:42 am said:

Dear All,

The Madhyasiddhanta Kaumudi of Varadaraja, edited and annotated along with the Sanskrit scholium, ‘Prabhakari’, and a Hindi translation, by Acarya Visvanatha Sastri Prabhakara, has been published by Motilal Banarsidass. The paperback edition costs Rs. 145.

Thank you very much for posting the whole of Saradaranjan Ray’s English exposition of the Siddhantakaumudi. It will be extremely kind of you to post the Srisa Chandra Vasu translation of the Siddhantakaumudi, if possible.

A good Sanskrit exposition of the Bhattikavyam in two volumes is the Bhattikavyaprakasah of Swami Prajnanananda Saraswati (a.k.a. Prajnanananda Bhiksu), published by Chowkhamba of Varanasi.

Best regards,
Sudipta Munsi

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- blogadmin on November 16, 2011 at 6:30 pm said:
  
  Munsiji,
  
  Thanks for posting the details here. I will try to post Srisa Chandra Vasu’s Siddhanta Kaumudi in a day or two.
  
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  - Sudipta Munsi on November 22, 2011 at 6:57 am said:
    
    Thank you very much. I look forward to reading the S. C. Vasu translation of the Siddhantakaumudi.
    
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anil verma on January 31, 2012 at 1:43 am said:

wonderful work

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Shair Ali Khan on March 11, 2012 at 5:48 am said:

Namastay to all dear friends and language servers
i am a phd student in International Islamic University Islamabad pakistan. my research topic is the comparative study of the book of Panini Ashtadhyayi and the book of Sibawaihi al-Kitab.i couldnot find the latest translations of Ashtadhyayi like Rama Nath Sharma’s Translation and S.D.Joshi . any friend who provide me the soft copy of these two valuable translations i willbe grateful . i couldnot find the hard copies of them in Pakistan.
Thanks
shair ali khan
phd student
department of linguistics
faculty of ARABIC
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN

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- blogadmin on March 22, 2012 at 7:08 am said:
  
  Shair Ali Khan,
  
  The goal of this blog is to make available the Sanskrit ebooks that are in public domain. Please do not request for copyrighted books. I have sent you a mail with some helpful hints.
  
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Shair Ali Khan on March 28, 2012 at 2:37 pm said:

Thanks a lot Sir.
i got the link and tried to download but still couldnt succeeded in downlaoding the file.
thanks once agian.
ragard
Shair Ali Khan

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Shair Ali Khan on March 28, 2012 at 2:40 pm said:

Thanks a lot Sir.
i got the link and tried to download but still couldnt succeeded in downlaoding the file.

ragard
Shair Ali Khan

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- bharateeya on March 28, 2012 at 6:46 pm said:
  
  Shair Ali Khan,
  
  Please “right-click” on the links and save the files.
  
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Priyananda on July 7, 2012 at 4:53 pm said:

I am looking for some books on Sidhanta Kaumudi, which have detailed commentary/explanations, preferably with examples. I am ok with either Hindi or English language books. I am looking for books in print (not ebooks), so that I can buy these. Can somebody recommend this list of books to me?

Thanks
Mukesh

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- bharateeya on July 7, 2012 at 5:04 pm said:
  
  Priyananda,
  
  You could try posting this as a query in “Samskrita Google Group” and you are sure to get very good suggestions from the Sanskrit scholars of that group.
  
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mangat shastri on October 9, 2012 at 6:44 am said:

sidhant komudi is a best book for success in all sanskrit exams

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mangat shastri on October 9, 2012 at 6:49 am said:

samyak gyanm danardham dhanyawad;

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- mangat shastri on October 9, 2012 at 6:50 am said:
  
  dhanyawad;
  
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Ashok Kumar Sahu on May 18, 2013 at 5:26 pm said:

Sir,
you have done such honorable works,that there are no words to express thanks or gratitude.You rather we should open such forum where all seeker of ancient Aryan /Hindu(Misnomer) religion may come and drink nectar of spiritualism ,religion,wisdom in sanskrit language.Let us safeguard and spread ancient Aryan Religion and knowledge contained in Sanskrit.The zeal and sacrifice of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati of Arya Samaj is required.

yours Sincerely

Ashok Kumar Sahu,
Advocate

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Stephen Thompson on June 3, 2013 at 6:22 pm said:

great contribution
thank you

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Stephen Thompson on June 3, 2013 at 6:24 pm said:

cannot access it at all on my mac
just blank pages!
can you help?

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- bharateeya on June 4, 2013 at 1:25 am said:
  
  Stephen Thomson,
  
  Siddhanta Kaumudi volumes are in pdf format. If you have a pdf reader, you must be able to open and read them. I haven’t used MAC.
  
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SUDIPTA MUNSI on July 5, 2013 at 5:55 am said:

Taranatha Tarkavacaspati Bhattacarya, author of the Vacaspatyam dictionary, wrote a Sanskrit scholium called Sarala on the Siddhantakaumudi of Bhattoji Diksita. Has anyone a digital copy of the full text? I have not been able to download it from http://www.new.dli.gov.in/ due to poor internet connection.

Regards,
Sudipta Munsi

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P. Sukumar on May 16, 2015 at 11:38 am said:

I am grateful for the publications made in this site. The Siddhantha Kaumudi sets are immensely useful to me. The interesting books available here kindle further interest in learning The Great Language, “Sanskrit”.

With Best Wishes,

P. Sukumar

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Arup Kar on August 24, 2015 at 7:59 am said:

Nama Namah!

Undoubtedly this is a wonderful work. At a glance we can find the Sanskrit Grammer with commentary, prose, poems of great authors and what not. Thank you once. again

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vasavi on January 21, 2017 at 6:06 pm said:

really useful for my book because understanding panini’s grammar is very difficult

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DR Y N RAO on February 4, 2017 at 3:17 am said:

The Volumes 5 and 6 are not getting downloaded! This may please be looked into at the earliest.

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- bharateeya on February 4, 2017 at 4:11 am said:
  
  Dr Rao, I checked the links of volumes 5 and 6. Both are working. Still, if you are not able to download from those links, all volumes are also available at archive.org. Giving below links of volumes 5 and 6.
  https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.326114
  https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.326115
  
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Vinod on June 24, 2017 at 8:50 am said:

Volume 2 Part 1 & Volume 2 Part 2
The links are not working. Kindly check and correct.

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- bharateeya on June 24, 2017 at 1:54 pm said:
  
  Vinod, I have posted all volumes to https://archive.org/details/Siddhantakaumudi_English_Translation_SR_Ray
  
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Abhijith on October 13, 2018 at 3:26 pm said:

Sir
Your work is really great. It is really inspiring that you provide such great books at free of cost.I never thought that such a platform will be available for downloading such books. Than you sir.

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Camille on October 19, 2018 at 1:43 am said:

It works quite well for me

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Himangshu Parasar on November 14, 2019 at 11:50 am said:

Where the hard copy of siddhanta kaumudi will be available?

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- bharateeya on November 15, 2019 at 5:52 am said:
  
  https://sanskritdocuments.org/bookstores.html
  
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sitaram khambete on March 5, 2020 at 2:45 pm said:

highly inspirig peace of info on sanskrit

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