Details

Standardized Title:

Navatattvaprakaraṇa. Gujarati & Prakrit

Subjects:

Jainism.
Jaina philosophy.
Jainism -- Doctrines.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Prakrit.
Manuscripts, Gujarati.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Prakrit and Gujarati (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for personal use, consultation, and contemplation; a treatise dealing with nine categories of truth (tattva). A Gujarati commentary runs vertically parallel, above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete, lacking a middle (eight folios).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11v).
Written in 9-14 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1, 9-11, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī navatattvaprakaranaṃ samāptamm // śrī (f. 11v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased 1960, possibly from Gujarat as wrapping notes are in Gujarati script.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 13

OCLC:

811249593