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Title

Pāṇinisūtra
पाणिनिसूत्र

Authors

• Pāṇini

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 257
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959025603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/827611542
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5902560

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).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

1 item (50 leaves) : 9 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity aṣṭamādhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ ity aṣṭamodhyayaḥ samāptaḥ saṃvat 1879 mitikārttivadya 2 bhṛguvāsare idaṃ samāptiṃmagamat // (f. 50v).

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Grammar
• Vedāṅgas

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — diagram f. 1r