⚠The image quality is extremely poor; the text is severely faded, blurry, and appears to be bleed-through from the reverse side of the leaf, making it nearly illegible. Transcription is based on faint visible outlines of common Sanskrit title page structures.
|| Prosperity and Grace || original: "Śrīḥ"; a traditional auspicious invocation used to begin Hindu texts
The Moon-Crest of Light Words (Short Version)?original: "Laghuśabdenduśekhara"; a famous 18th-century commentary on Sanskrit grammar
[Several lines of extremely faint text, likely containing an invocation and the author's name, possibly Nagesha (Nagoji) Bhatta] Nagesha Bhatta was one of the most influential grammarians of the later scholastic period in India.
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[Faint text at the bottom, possibly indicating the place of publication such as 'Varanasi' or details about a printing press]
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