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Title

Anumānaprakāśa
अनुमानप्रकाश

Authors

• Rucidattamiśra, active 16th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 635
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960313823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/860803676
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6031382

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on logical inference (anumāna) from the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy and is a commentary on the Anumānakhaṇḍa by Gaṅgeśa. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations throughout.
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 43 leaves foliated 1, 3-44, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 triple black line; wrapper notes state that the manuscript contains 47 folios suggesting that four folios are missing.
   

Extent

1 item (43 leaves) : 10 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Nyaya--Early works to 1800
• Inference--Early works to 1800
• Logic--India--Early works to 1800
• Hindu logic--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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