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

Title

Authors

• Buddhabhaṭṭa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954436073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779548151
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5443607

Publisher

Language

Summary

The Science of testing jewels (the Maṇiparīkṣa) summarizes, through mythic accounts of origin, Indian knowledge of diamonds and other precious gems.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 19v); alternate title Ratnaparīkṣa in margin, upper left verso (f. 1-19).
   
• Written in 9-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 19 leaves foliated 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1855 (1798) (f. 19v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Science--India--History
• Diamonds--India
• Gems--Folklore

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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