Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Section of the grammatical treatise and commentary that develops and expands on Patañjali's early work, the Mahābhāṣya (Great commentary), a treatment of Pāṇini's sūtras.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 32r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśabdakaustubhe prathamādhyāyasya prathame pāde paṃcamānhikaṃ // (f. 32r).
Scribe is Janārdana (f. 32r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.

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 2522 (UP 1685).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1685.

Contributor:

Janārdana, scribe.

OCLC:

933744424