Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Grammatical treatise and commentary that develops and expands on Patañjali's early work, the Mahābhāṣya ('Great commentary'), a treatment of Pāṇini's sūtras. Mansucript comprises nine sections, although foliation occurs in three parts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 3, f. 46v).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
376 leaves foliated (Part 1) [i], 1-263; (Part 2) 1-5, 5-6, 6-63; (Part 3) 1-46, [i], upper left and lower right verso; the first part comprises the first seven sections of the text, the second part is the eighth section, and the third part is the ninth section of the work.
Colophon: iti śrīvidvanmukuṭaratnasyaṃ lakṣmo 'dharasūreḥ sūnunā bhaṭṭojidīkṣitena kṛte ṣabdakaustubhe prathamādhyāyasya prathame pāde navamamānhikaṃ pādaścāpaṃ samāptaḥ // (f. 46v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Several folios colored yellow.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2516 (UP 201).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 201.

OCLC:

813296617