Details

Subjects:

Mathematics.
India.
Hindu astronomy.
Mathematics -- India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Lived in Maharashtra in the 17th century A.D. and is the son of Lakṣmīdharasūri (f. 41v).

Summary:

Treatise on Hindu astronomy (jyotiṣa) and mathematics, examining and considering the nature of a day (tithi) and how it should be calculated within broader cosmological systems.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 41v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
42 leaves foliated 1-41, [42], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadavākyapramāṇajñaśrīlakṣmīdharasūreḥ sūnunā bhaṭṭojīdīkṣitena viracitas tithinirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ // narahariṇālikhitaṃ (f. 41v).
Dated saṃvat 1798 caitrasudi 7 (Friday, March 24, 1741) (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with single black line.
Scribe is Narahari Bhaṭṭa Śevaḍe (f. 1r and 41v), son of Raghunātha and Sarasvatī Śevaḍe.
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 4736 (UP 2417).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2417

Contributor:

Narahari Bhaṭṭa Śevaḍe, scribe.

OCLC:

802279731