Jyotiṣa, circa 1700-1850. = ज्योतिष, १७००-१८५०.
- Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 19 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 648
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pk07258 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Divination.
Astronomy.
India.
Hindu astronomy.
Astronomy -- India.
Yugas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Divination -- India. - Form/Genre:
- Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used as a kind of guide book or manual for early Hindu and especially Vedic astronomy and is part of the supplemental literature to the Vedas or the Vedāṅga literature; makes reference to Vedic ritual and an unusual reference to a system of 5 year yugas (cosmic ages).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti jyotiṣaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ (f. 4v).
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 double red line. - 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 4841 (UP 648).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 648
- OCLC:
- 861291507