Details

Standardized Title:

Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti. Selections

Subjects:

Logic.
Inference.
Philosophy.
India.
Gaṅgeśa, active 13th century. Tattvacintāmaṇi.
Nyaya.
Inference -- Philosophy.
Hindu logic.
Logic -- India.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical commentary (dīdhiti) on a work by Gangeśa Upādhyāya called the Tattvacintāmaṇi, a treatise on logic from the Nyāya school of philosophy, particularly on the subject of inference (anumāna).

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 9v).
Scribe is Viṣṇu Śarman, son of Vināyaka Śarman (f. 9r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
Dated to the Jaya saṃvatsara year (f. 9r), the twenty-eighth year of a sixty-year solar cycle, making the likely date of this manuscript, considering its condition,1834-1835.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmahopādhyāya śrīraghunāthabhaṭṭācāryaśiromaṇikṛtānumānamaṇidīdhitisaṃpūrṇatāmapāsīt // śrīrāmārpaṇam astu // (f. 9r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant words an phrases highlighted in red.
Watermark with the partial name of a company containing AIM, a coat of arms, and the initials G and M; another contains AGN in a name.

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 3739 (UP 2092).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2092.

Contributor:

Śarman, Viṣṇu, scribe.

OCLC:

957526132