Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya, 17th century-18th century

Other related names

• Bālaśāstri, scribe
• Dhāmaṇakara, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960315593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/860805451
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6031559

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on logic, particularly logical fallacies (satpratipakṣa), from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 34r).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 34 leaves foliated 1-34, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through half of the manuscript.
   
• Scribe is Bālaśāstri (f. 34v).
   
• European style paper with watermarks of a shield and sword crest as well as a man riding in a palanquin on top of an elephant throughout the manuscript.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Manuscript was commissioned by Dhāmaṇakara (f. 34r).
   

Subjects topical

• Nyaya
• Logic--India
• Hindu logic
• Hindu philosophy
• Indian philosophy

Genres

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

Licenses

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