Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Biography/History:

14th-century Sanskrit grammarian from the Bengal region.

Summary:

Manuscript contains a regional (Bengali) interpretation of Pāṇini's system of Sanskrit grammar along with an analysis of Prakrit grammar. Manuscript contains six of seven different sections, commenting on different parts of Kramadīśvara's extensive grammatical work. Manuscript contains the commentaries by Goyīcandra and Jumaranandī.

Notes:

Title from marginal note in opening folio (Part 1, f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
483 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-77; (Part 2) 1, 1-139; (Part 3) 1-72; (Part 4) 1-41; (Part 5) 1-62; (Part 6) 1-57, [i], 58-65, [ii], 66-89, [iii], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: mahābhahopādhyāya śrīgomīcandrakṛtāyāṃ jūmaranandivṛttiṭīkāyāṃ saptamaḥ samāsapāda (Part 6, f. 89v).
Dated before 17 September 1892 A.D., from the bill of sale (found in Part 2, f. 51-52).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Prasana Kumar Bhallachiru, named on a bill of sale accompanying the manuscript; found in the second part of the manuscript between folios 51 and 52.

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 2445 (UP 242).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 242.

Contributor:

Jumaranandī.
Prasana Kumar Bhallachiru, former owner.

OCLC:

825820835