Details

Other Title:

Dvādāśa vṛtti.

Subjects:

Jainism.
Yantras.
Sanskrit language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Jaina Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a small section of a larger Jaina grammatical work, possibly with reference to grammatical compounds.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v); alternate title derived from colophon (f. 1v) by writing the numeral 12 as a word.
Written in 32 lines.
Colophon: iti kṛtiḥ śrīmunicandrasūrīṇām // śośaṃśaḥ vistuḥ triṃśovarguḥ // 12 vṛtti saṃpūrṇā // (f. 1v).
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. Text is divided into three columns and the words form a kind of diamond-shaped yantra (diagram) at the center of each column with four characters from the text at the center of each one (six in total). Text is incomplete.

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 5447 (UP 777).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 777

OCLC:

880983297