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Aṣṭādhyāyī, circa 1700-1850.
अष्टाध्यायी
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 212
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Pāṇini
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit language--Grammar.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (82 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 19 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 212
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- 6th-century B.C. Sanskrit grammarian from the northern part of South Asia in the Peshawar valley (in present day Pakistan).
- Summary:
- Manuscript comprises the eight parts of the ancient grammarian Pāṇini's work contained within the corpus of the Vedāṅga dealing with grammatical interpretations of the Vedas.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 82r).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 82 leaves foliated 1-82, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: ity aṣṭamādhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ // pāṇinipraṇītā 'ṣṭādhyāyā samāptā // (f. 82r).
- 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.
- 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 2464 (UP 212).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 212
- OCLC:
- 821581956
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