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Maṇiparīkṣa, 1798.
मणिपरीक्ष
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Buddhabhaṭṭa.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Science--India--History.
- Science.
- India.
- History.
- Diamonds--India.
- Diamonds.
- Gems--Folklore.
- Gems.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (19 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 801
- Other Title:
- Ratnaparīkṣa.
- Place of Publication:
- 1798.
- १७९८.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Author dated to 6th century A.D.
- 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.
- Colophon: iti maṇiparīkṣāsamāpta // mitībhādrapadaśuddha 1 saṃ[va]t 1855 bhaumavāsare nikhitā // śubhaṃ bhūyāt // (f. 19v).
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4246 (UP 801).
- Included in Harlow, G. E., ed. The Nature of Diamonds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with the American Museum of Natural History, 1998.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 801
- OCLC:
- 779548152
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