Phiṭsūtra, circa 1700-1850
फिट्सूत्र, १७००-१८५०

Description
Manuscript for consultation and study is a grammatical treatise on accent use in Vedic literature.
Creator
Śāntanava
Form
manuscripts (documents)
commentaries
treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1700
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Sanskrit language -- Accents and accentuation
Sanskrit language
Sanskrit language -- Grammar
Collection
Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 21 cm
Notes
Ancient Indian grammarian sometime after the 6th century B.C.
Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śaṃtanavācāryapraṇIteṣuphiṭasūtreṣucaturthaḥ pādaḥ // atha[phiṭ]sūtrapāṭhasamaptaṃ (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Two of three folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
Non-Latin script record.
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dm19
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 247
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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