Details

Standardized Title:

Tattvacintāmaṇi. Selections

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Watermarks.
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. The text represents a small section of the larger work by Gaṅgeśa. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Cintāmaṇi from abbreviations in margins.
Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-8, 10-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Watermarks of a coat of arms with the letters G. M. (possibly referring to the paper maker Gior Magnani) below it; another, though unclear, could be AL MASSO.

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 3728 (UP 2141).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2141.

OCLC:

958839547