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Pāṇinisūtra, 1821. = पाणिनिसूत्र, १८२१.

Author/Creator:
Pāṇini.
Publication:
1821.
१८२१.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (50 leaves) : paper, illustrations ; 9 x 24 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 257
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Standardized Title:
Aṣṭādhyāyī
Subjects:
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Vedāṅgas.
Form/Genre:
Commentaries.
Treatises.
Diagrams.
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).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity aṣṭamādhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ ity aṣṭamodhyayaḥ samāptaḥ saṃvat 1879 mitikārttivadya 2 bhṛguvāsare idaṃ samāptiṃmagamat // (f. 50v).
Dated saṃvat 1879 (1821) (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Several folios are treated with purple or blue pigment wash.
Includes small rectangular diagram/chart of numbers and characters (f. 1r)
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 2468 (UP 257).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 257
OCLC:
827611543