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:

The small manuscript for private study and consultation comprises the first three and part of the fourth sections of the first of eight books in Pāṇini's well-known work on Sanskrit grammar. This work is part of the corpus of the Vedāṅga dealing with grammatical interpretations of the Vedas. Lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
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 2466 (UP 246).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 246.

OCLC:

826008766