Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Semantics.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Sanskrit language -- Semantics -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise on Sanskrit grammar attempting to systematize Pāṇini's grammar, with particular attention to philosophical interpretations of the grammar.

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 20v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
44 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-26, (Part 2) 3-20, upper left and lower right verso; the foliation of Part 2 begins on folio 25 of Part 1 with ff. 25-26 being equal to ff. 1-2, thus the separate foliation of Part 2 begins with f. 3.
Colophon: iti śrīmatpadavākyapramāṇapārāvārapārīṇadhūrīṇaraṃgojibhaṭṭātmajakoṇḍabhaṭṭakṛte vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāre samāpto 'yaṃ sphoṭaḥ // (Part 2, f. 20v)
Dated saṃvat 1833 (1776) (Part 2, f. 20v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 2442 (UP 1746).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1746.

OCLC:

936558758