Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
West Bengal (India).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Biography/History:

Sanskrit grammarian, likely from West Bengal, dated to the late twelfth or thirteenth century.

Summary:

Manuscript contains a regional (Bengali) interpretation of Pāṇini's system of Sanskrit grammar along with an analysis of Prakrit grammar. Manuscript contains seven different sections drawn from different parts of Kramadīśvara's larger grammatical work and is likely a condensed version for the purpose of study and/or teaching. Manuscript contains an unknown running commentary above and below the main text.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (Part 6, f. 65v).
Written in 4-16 lines per leaf.
237 leaves foliated [Part 1] 1-8, 8-25; [Part 2] 1, [i], 2-19, [i], 20-34, [Part 3] 22-24, 24-38; [Part 4] 1-38; [Part 5] 1-35; [Part 6] 1-59, [i], 60-65; [Part 7] 1-37, middle right verso.
Internal colophon [Part 6]: iti vādīndracakracūḍāmani mahāpaṇḍita śrīkramadī[śva]rakṛtau saṃkṣiptasare mahārājādhirāja śrīmajumanandipariśodhitāyāṃ vṛtau dvitīyastiṅantapādaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 65v).
Dated śaka 1783 (1861), accompanying manuscript notes.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; many folios treated with turmeric powder.
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 2444 (UP 231).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 231

OCLC:

823472978