Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana Bhaṭṭācārya.

SiddhāntamuktāvalĪ, circa 1700-1850.

1 item (17 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm.

Manuscript used for consultation or study and is a treatise on logic and categories of speech (bhāṣā), from the perspective of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy, and is a commentary of another work by the same author called the Bhāṣāpariccheda. Manuscript is incomplete.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 8 lines per leaf.

17 leaves foliated 1, 5-12, 12-18, 20, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; an additions in top margin (f. 1v) in pencil; significant phrases and verse dividers highlighted in red.

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 608

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 608

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390

सिद्धान्तमुक्तावली, १७००-१८५०.