Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century grammarian and student of Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita, known for his commentary and abridgements of his teacher's work.

Summary:

Manuscript is for consultation and study, especially for students learning Sanskrit grammar. Text is a rearrangement and abridgment of Pāṇini's grammar as interpreted by Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita. Manuscript comprises a section of the larger work; lacks beginning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 3-31, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity avyayānisamāptāni // śubham astu // (f. 31v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some folios treated with yellow 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 2636 (UP 245).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 245

OCLC:

826010981