Details

Other Title:

Pāṇinīyasūtra.

Subjects:

Vedāṅgas.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Vedāṅgas -- Early works to 1800.

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:

Manuscript is for consultation and study and comprises the first eight chapters of Pāṇini's well-known grammar, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, which is part of the genre of Vedāṅga literature, commenting on grammatical usage in the Vedas.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Pāṇinīyasūtra from colophon (f. 60r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
56 leaves foliated 1-25, 30-60, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pāṇinīyasūtre aṣṭamodhyāyaḥ // śake 1647 pauṣaśuddha 13 samāptaṃ // (f. 6or).
Dated śaka 1647 (1725) (f. 60r).
Mistakes blacked out; minor corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black or red line. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned and commisioned by Rāmeśara (f. 1r).

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 2467 (UP 252).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 252.

Contributor:

Rāmeśara, former owner.

OCLC:

826009057