Aṣṭādhyāyī. Turīya 1-4, Adhyāya 1, circa 1700-1850.
अष्टाध्यायी. तुरीय १-४, अध्याय १,

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pāṇini

Standardized Title:

Aṣṭādhyāyī. Selections

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit language--Grammar.

Sanskrit language.

Vedāṅgas.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1761

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 is for consultation and study and comprises the first four sections of the first chapter 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 colophon (f. 1r).

Written in 10 lines per leaf.

10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti turīyaḥ pādaḥ // prathamo dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 6v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 2469 (UP 1761).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1761.

OCLC:

938029548