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. 30r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśabdakaustubhe prathamasya ādhyāyasya prathame pāde ṣaṣṭamānhikaṃ // (f. 30r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant symbols, characters, and phrases highlighted in red; first folio covered with yellow turmeric powder to protect 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 2523 (UP 1686).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1686.

OCLC:

933744394