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Title

Nyāyasāra
न्यायसार

Authors

• Bhāsarvajña, active 10th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 938
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962767053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891758381
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6276705

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise on logic written from the perspective of the Nyāya school of philosophy, intented to present a compendium and essence of the school's essential features.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 68v).
   
• Written in 5-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 68 leaves foliated 1-68, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1906 (1849) (f. 68v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (68 leaves) : 9 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti nyāyasāre caturthādhyāyasya caturtha 4 pādo 'dhyāyaśca samāptaḥ // (f. 68v).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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