Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

6th-century B.C. Sanskrit grammarian from the northern part of South Asia in the Peshawar valley (in present day Pakistan).

Summary:

Manuscript comprises the eight parts of the ancient grammarian Pāṇini's work, contained within the corpus of the Vedāṅga dealing with grammatical interpretations and commentary of the Vedas.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 190r).
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
183 leaves foliated 1-10, 13-72, 75-88, 92-132, 132-136, 138-190, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pāṇiyakṛtavyākaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // saṃvat // 1866 // mi - mārgaśirakṛṣṇa 10 (f. 190r).
Dated saṃvat 1866 mārgaśirakṛṣṇa 10 (Sunday, 31 December 1809) (f. 190r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
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 2465 (UP 214).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 214

OCLC:

823036751