Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical commentary (dīdhiti) on a work by Gangeśa Upādhyāya called the Tattvacintāmaṇi, a treatise on logic from the Nyāya school of philosophy, particularly on the subject of inference (anumāna).
Title from end title page (f. 9v).; Scribe is Viṣṇu Śarman, son of Vināyaka Śarman (f. 9r).; Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.; Dated to the Jaya saṃvatsara year (f. 9r), the twenty-eighth year of a sixty-year solar cycle, making the likely date of this manuscript, considering its condition,1834-1835.; 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīmahopādhyāya śrīraghunāthabhaṭṭācāryaśiromaṇikṛtānumānamaṇidīdhitisaṃpūrṇatāmapāsīt // śrīrāmārpaṇam astu // (f. 9r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant words an phrases highlighted in red.; Watermark with the partial name of a company containing AIM, a coat of arms, and the initials G and M; another contains AGN in a name.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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