Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Divination -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Gujarati (Devanāgarī, Gujarati)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for astrological predictions and divination and dealing with the transition of the sun, the moon, the earth, and other heavenly bodies. Some notes and a table of numbers are written in Gujarati.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 14r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīharināthācāryakṛtāyāṃ saṃketakaumudyāṃ bhāvaprakaraṇe paṃcamodhyāyaḥ // śubhaṃ bhavatu // (f. 14r).
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 a black 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 5093 (UP 655).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 655

OCLC:

861295428