Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author's name also written in manuscript as Śrīkaṇṭhāśarma Dīkṣita (f. 44v).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise and commentary on logic from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy; the text is a commentary (dīpikā) on the Siddhāntamañjarī by Nṛsiṃha Pañchānana.

Notes:

Colophon: iti śrīdīkṣitaśrīkaṃṭhaśarmaviracitā nyāyasiddhāṃtamaṃjarīdīpikāyām upamānaparichedaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīkāṃṭāyanamaḥ // (f. 44v).
Title from colophon (f. 44v).
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
44 leaves foliated 1-44, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple 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 3831 (UP 2104).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2104.

OCLC:

957772485