Details

Subjects:

Logic.
India.
Logic -- India.
Nyaya.
Hindu logic.
Hindu philosophy.
Indian philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Named Nyāyapañcānana in the colophon (f. 10r).

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. 10r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnyāyapaṃcānanatapaṇyaviracitaḥ samāptavādaḥ samāptaḥ bhūvāṇādi dhaṭitrībhir gaṇite vaikrapeśake kāśyāṃ pauṇyāṃ mahādevaḥ sanyāsavādamā likhate 1 // saṃvat (f. 10r).
Dated saṃvat 1791 (1734) (f. 10r).
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 black line.

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 3809 (UP 642).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 642

Contributor:

Nyāyapañcānana.

OCLC:

861293173