Details

Standardized Title:

Jāgadīśī

Subjects:

Inference.
Logic.
Hindu logic.
Indian philosophy.
Hindu philosophy.
India.
Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Indian philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Nyaya -- Early works to 1800.
Nyaya.
Hindu logic -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Inference -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on logic and two kinds of inference from the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
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 quadruple red line.
Manuscript was copied by the same scribe as Ms. Coll. 390 Item 614, Item 617, Item 618, Item 619, Item 620, Item 621, and Item 622.
Dated saṃvat 1750 (1693) on the basis of dates on Item 619, Item 620, Item 621, and Item 622; date may be copied from earlier work given the quality of the paper.

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 3785 (UP 616).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 616

OCLC:

858625143