Pāṇinisūtra, 1821.
पाणिनिसूत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pāṇini

Standardized Title:

Aṣṭādhyāyī

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit language--Grammar.

Sanskrit language.

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