Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Grammar.
Hindu philosophy.
Meaning (Philosophy) -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Commentaries.
Treatises.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Biography/History:

Author is the pre-common era grammarian and not the common-era author of the Yogasūtras of the same name.

Summary:

Manuscript is divided into a root text, the Mahābhāṣya (Great commentary), in the center of each folio and a secondary text, the Bhāṣyapradīpa, running parallel above and below it. The root text, attributed to Patañjali, is a grammatical commentary and philosophical treatise on the work of Pāṇini, while the secondary text is a grammatical and philosophical super-commentary on the former by Kaiyaṭa. Especially explores the relationship of words and meaning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 71v); title of super-commentary Bhāṣyapradīpa from secondary colophon (f. 71v).
Written in 8-16 lines per leaf.
71 leaves foliated 1-71, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon (root text): iti śrīmadbhagavatpataṃjaliviracite vyākaraṇamahābhāṣye tṛtīyasyādhyāyasya prathame pāde ṣaṣṭamārhikaṃ samāptaṃ (f. 71v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 2491 (UP 1728).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1728.

Contains:

Kaiyaṭa. Pradīpa.

OCLC:

935538386