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Title

Maṇimūla
मणिमूल

Authors

• Gaṅgeśa, active 13th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2070
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970826673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957237382
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7082667

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on logic from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy, likely part of the Tattvacintāmaṇi. Manuscript lacks a beginning and an ending.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 13-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 62 leaves foliated 2, 4-64, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: ity avayavavādaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīsatyavratagurubhyo namaḥ // (f. 45v).
   
• 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 single black line. Some folios treated with yellow pigment (turmeric powder) to protect manuscript from insects; some gold pigment added to several folios.
   
• A single wooden board, with beveled edges and a border of simple lines drawn around the top of it, supports the manuscript.
   

Extent

1 item (62 leaves) : 10 x 20 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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