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Title

Mahābhāṣya
महाभाष्य

Authors

• Patañjali
• Kaiyaṭa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 219
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958748733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823036756
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5874873

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 72v); title of super-commentary Bhāṣyapradīpa from secondary colophon (f. 72v).
   
• Written in 14-18 lines per leaf.
   
• 72 leaves foliated 1-72, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Colophon (root text): iti śrīmadbhagavatpaṃtaṃjaliviracite vyākaraṇamahābhāṣye aṣṭamasyādhyāyacaturthe pāde prathamamāddhikam pādaścaturthaḥ adhyāyaścāṣṭamaḥ / (f. 72v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (72 leaves) : 18 x 34 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon (root text): iti śrīmadbhagavatpaṃtaṃjaliviracite vyākaraṇamahābhāṣye aṣṭamasyādhyāyacaturthe pāde prathamamāddhikam pādaścaturthaḥ adhyāyaścāṣṭamaḥ / (f. 72v).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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