Maṇiparīkṣa, 1798.
मणिपरीक्ष

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Buddhabhaṭṭa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Science--India--History.
• Science.
• India.
• History.
• Diamonds--India.
• Diamonds.
• Gems--Folklore.

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