Mahābhāṣya, circa 1700-1850.
महाभाष्य

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Patañjali, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

• commentaries
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (33 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 34 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 220

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is divided into a root text, the Mahābhāṣya or "Great commentary," in the center of each folio and a secondary text, the Bhāṣyapradīpa, running parallel above and below it. The root text, by 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. Manuscript is incomplete and is missing most of the initial part of the text.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 105r); title of super-commentary Bhāṣyapradīpa from secondary colophon (f. 105r).
• Written in 7-15 lines per leaf.
• 33 leaves foliated 70-71, 73, 76-105, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon (root text): iti śrībhagavatpataṃjaliviracite śrīvyākaraṇamahābhāṣye paṃcamasyādhyāyasya caturthe pāde prathamamāddhikam // paṃ[camo] 'dhyāyapūrṇa / (f. 105r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; margins marked with two vertical black lines.
• 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 2493 (UP 220).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 220.

Contains:

Kaiyaṭa. Pradīpa.

OCLC:

823043677