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Aṣṭādhyāyī, 1725.
अष्टाध्यायी
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 252
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Pāṇini
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vedāṅgas.
- Sanskrit language--Grammar.
- Sanskrit language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
- Vedāṅgas--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned and commisioned by Rāmeśara (f. 1r).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (56 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 252
- Other Title:
- Pāṇinīyasūtra.
- Place of Publication:
- 1725.
- १७२५.
- 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 is for consultation and study and comprises the first eight chapters of Pāṇini's well-known grammar, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, which is part of the genre of Vedāṅga literature, commenting on grammatical usage in the Vedas.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Pāṇinīyasūtra from colophon (f. 60r).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 56 leaves foliated 1-25, 30-60, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti pāṇinīyasūtre aṣṭamodhyāyaḥ // śake 1647 pauṣaśuddha 13 samāptaṃ // (f. 6or).
- Dated śaka 1647 (1725) (f. 60r).
- Mistakes blacked out; minor corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black or red line. Some 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 2467 (UP 252).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 252.
- OCLC:
- 826009057
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