Details

Standardized Title:

Gādādharī. Selections

Subjects:

Logic.
India.
Nyaya.
Sanskrit language -- Etymology.
Hindu chants.
Logic -- India.
Hindu logic.
Hindu philosophy.
Indian philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise giving an etymological reading of Vedic chanting and considerations of logic from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śake 1795 rudhirodgārīnāmasaṃbatsaretapasimāseśuddhatṛtīyāyāṃsāmānyaniruktiḥ samāptā // śrītripurāṃ vikārpaṇamastu // śrīrjayatu // (f. 32v).
Dated śake 1795 (1873) (f. 32r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple black line.
Partial fine penned floral design inside of a rectangular border on front cover (f. 1r); many marginal notes are written in Gujarati script throughout the manuscript.
European blue paper with watermarks of various crests, one a crest flanked by two lions above the year 1870, another a crest with Victory in its center; there are also various words and numbers and the year 1860.

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 3768 (UP 632).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 632

OCLC:

860805359