Sabdamanidarpana, by Kesiraja, with the commentary of Linganaradhya by Kedilaya, A. Shanker ; editor: [ Kesiraja (fl. 1260)] - 1973

Rubbed. Binding corner bumps. Soime top page-edge soil. Good.,, dustwrapper. Dravidian Linguistics [University of Madras] Madras 1973 orig. cloth 116,xx,474pp.,, 25x16cm, Series: Madras University Kannada series, 5. Contains a 6-page English introduction. Remainder of text entirely in Kannada script. A grammar of Old Kannada. "In the present edition of this work the gloss of Linganaradhya, a Virasaiva scholar, who may be roughly placed in the 16th century, is published for the first time". Contents: Preface; Introduction (in Kannada); Detailed list of contents (in Kannada);Text of the Sabdamaanidarpana (with Linganaradhya's commentary); Appendices I to IX; Half-tone plates(of two pages of the original manuscript in palm-leaf). First published in 1939.