Details

Standardized Title:

Anumānakhaṇḍa

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on logic from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy, likely part of the Tattvacintāmaṇi. Manuscript lacks a beginning and an ending.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 13-17 lines per leaf.
62 leaves foliated 2, 4-64, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: ity avayavavādaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīsatyavratagurubhyo namaḥ // (f. 45v).
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 single black line. Some folios treated with yellow pigment (turmeric powder) to protect manuscript from insects; some gold pigment added to several folios.
A single wooden board, with beveled edges and a border of simple lines drawn around the top of it, supports the manuscript.

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 3715 (UP 2070).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2070.

OCLC:

957237382