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Title

Aṣṭādhyāyī
अष्टाध्यायी

Authors

• Pāṇini

Other related names

• Rāmeśara, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 252
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958977073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826019911
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5897707

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

1 item (56 leaves) : 10 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti pāṇinīyasūtre aṣṭamodhyāyaḥ // śake 1647 pauṣaśuddha 13 samāptaṃ // (f. 6or).

Provenance

• Formerly owned and commisioned by Rāmeśara (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Vedāṅgas--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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