nyAyas

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> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am looking for the largest collections of nyAyas (maxims, examples)
> available either in printed or manuscript form. They often prove to be
> an unvaluable help for understanding the gist of the arguments within
> which they occur. 
> I have already got in my personal or Department library:
> G.A. Jacob, LaukikanyAyAJjali
> S.B. Singh, NyAyAvali
> Chavinath Mizra, NyAyoktikoza.
> The latter often refers to one NyAyasAhasrI. Does anybody know where
> I can find this text ? Any information about this and other texts of this
> kind will be welcome.
> 
> Raffaele Torella
> <torella at rmcisadu.cisadu.uniroma1.it>
  



Generally speaking, it is always a good idea to turn to the New
Catalogus Catalogorum (and Aufrecht's Cat. Cat.), an often neglected 
reference tool. There you will find a short entry for the NyAyasAhasrI 
of BhuvaneZa. In a way, the NCC is the most comprehensive "history of 
Sanskrit literature" that will ever be available. So let's hope that 
some day it will be completed.
Another possible source of information are printed library catalogues 
of Sanskrit books, in particular the India Office Library Catalogue 
in four volumes, however, not in this particular case, it seems.

Sorry to bother you with such elementary stuff.


Reinhold Gruenendahl
Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
37070 Goettingen
Germany
Phone: 0551/395283