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. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins.
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant symbols, characters, and phrases highlighted in red.

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 2526 (UP 1689).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1689.

OCLC:

933744554