Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Named Harirāma Tarkkālaṃkāra in the colophon (f. 8v).

Summary:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī harirāmatarkkālaṃkāraviricito viṣayatāvādansamāptaḥ // śrīviśveśvaraḥ prīṇa[??] // śrī śāke 1637 mārgatsu- 2 vadhe likhitam idaṃ kīrtidhareṇa svārthāṃ kāśyī (f. 8v).
Scribe is Kīrtidhara (f. 8v).
Dated śāke 1637 (1715) (f. 8v).
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 black line.

Penn Provenance:

Originally commissioned by someone in the sacred city of Varāṇasī (f. 8v).

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 3846 (UP 637).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 637

Contributor:

Kīrtidhara, scribe.

OCLC:

860804251