Navatattvaprakaraṇa, circa 1700-1850; नवतत्त्वप्रकरण,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript for personal use, consultation, and contemplation; a treatise dealing with nine categories of truth (tattva). A Gujarati commentary runs vertically parallel, above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete, lacking a middle (eight folios).

Language:

Prakrit languages

Provenance:

Purchased 1960, possibly from Gujarat as wrapping notes are in Gujarati script.

Subject:

Jainism; Jaina philosophy; Jainism -- Doctrines

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

commentaries; treatises; Manuscripts, Prakrit; Manuscripts, Gujarati; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 13 x 24 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11v).; Written in 9-14 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1, 9-11, lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrī navatattvaprakaranaṃ samāptamm // śrī (f. 11v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.; Non-Latin script record.; In Prakrit and Gujarati (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Indic 13