Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Versification.
Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit poetry.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Marathi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation and study and is a work on the study of the Sanskrit catagory of chandas (poetic meter, prosody, and versification).

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 9v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti chaṃdaḥ samāptaḥ // sakhārāmāci pothi // (f. 9v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers, syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sakhārāma, a Marathi brahman (9v).

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 2812 (UP 507).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 507

Contributor:

Sakhārāma, former owner.

OCLC:

847747150