Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Accents and accentuation.
Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Ancient Indian grammarian sometime after the 6th century B.C.

Summary:

Manuscript for consultation and study is a grammatical treatise on accent use in Vedic literature.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śaṃtanavācāryapraṇIteṣuphiṭasūtreṣucaturthaḥ pādaḥ // atha[phiṭ]sūtrapāṭhasamaptaṃ (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Two of three folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
Non-Latin script record.

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 2651 (UP 247).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 247.

OCLC:

826008776