Details

Subjects:

Logic.
India.
Nyaya.
Hindu logic.
Logic -- India.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise on logic written from the perspective of the Nyāya school of philosophy, intented to present a compendium and essence of the school's essential features.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 68v).
Written in 5-9 lines per leaf.
68 leaves foliated 1-68, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nyāyasāre caturthādhyāyasya caturtha 4 pādo 'dhyāyaśca samāptaḥ // (f. 68v).
Dated saṃvat 1906 (1849) (f. 68v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3692 (UP 938).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 938

OCLC:

891758350