Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
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 is a short grammatical treatise, which comments on the grammatical structure of Vedic hymns and is considered part of Vedic supplementary literature, the Vedāṅga. Manuscript begins with the fourth chapter of Pāṇini's complete work but likely represents a particular short recension, reconfiguration, or selection of the larger work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śikśā saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrī rastu // (f. 7r).
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 2512 (UP 213).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 213.

OCLC:

823043672