Details

Standardized Title:

Pāṇinīyaśikṣā.

Other Title:

Śikṣā

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Vedāṅgas.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a short grammatical treatise that comments on the grammatical structure of Vedic hymns and is considered part of Vedic supplementary literature, the Vedāṅga. Manuscript begins with the fourth chapter of Pāṇini's complete work but likely represents a particular short recension, reconfiguration, or selection of the larger work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title Śikṣā from margins.
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vedanāsikāśikṣāsamāptaḥ // (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases highlight in red; 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 370 (UP 2046).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2046.

OCLC:

956713192