Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Versification.
Sanskrit language.
Mammaṭācārya. Kāvyaprakāśa.
Sanskrit poetry.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a commentary (vyākhyā) and reflection on the Kāvyaprakāśa by Mammaṭācārya, which is a work on rhetoric and poetic composition literally meaning, Illustration of poetry. Manuscript also contains a supercommentary written in red ink above the main text.

Notes:

Title from back title page (f. 102v).
Written in 9-13 lines per leaf.
102 leaves foliated 1-102, 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. Every second folio treated with yellow turmeric powder and metalic (possibly gold) flecks.

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 2398 (UP 525).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 525

OCLC:

849656839