Pāṇinisūtra, 1821.
पाणिनिसूत्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Pāṇini.

Standardized Title:

• Aṣṭādhyāyī

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Sanskrit language--Grammar.
• Vedāṅgas.

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (50 leaves) : paper, illustrations ; 9 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 257

Place of Publication:

• 1821.
• १८२१.

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).
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
• 50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: ity aṣṭamādhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ ity aṣṭamodhyayaḥ samāptaḥ saṃvat 1879 mitikārttivadya 2 bhṛguvāsare idaṃ samāptiṃmagamat // (f. 50v).
• Dated saṃvat 1879 (1821) (f. 5v).
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Several folios are treated with purple or blue pigment wash.
• Includes small rectangular diagram/chart of numbers and characters (f. 1r)
• 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 2468 (UP 257).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 257

OCLC:

827611543