Details

Subjects:

Logic.
India.
Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana Bhaṭṭācārya. Bhāṣāpariccheda.
Nyaya.
Hindu logic.
Logic -- India.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation or study and is a treatise on logic and categories of speech (bhāṣā), from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy, and is a commentary of another work by the same author called the Bhāṣāpariccheda, referred to as Muktāvalīkārikā in the manuscript (f. 62v). The commentary (Siddhāntamuktāvalī) runs parallel above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 62v).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
61 leaves foliated 1-35, 37, 1-25 with final two folios having double foliation ending with 61-62 in addition to 24-25, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpaṃcānanabattācāryyaviracitāsiddhāṃtamuktāvalīsamāptāṃ // (f. 62v)
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 double 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 3656 (UP 2168).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2168.

OCLC:

959924116