Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Hindu astrology and divination, outlining the twelve (dvādaśa) heavenly stations of planetary rotation and the benefits that result from them and affect human life.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dvādaśabhavaphalasamāptaṃ // śubhaṃ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double 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 5121 (UP 658).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 658

OCLC:

861359262