Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise used for contemplation and consultation for the purpose of divination through the reading of planetary diagrams and tables.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 19v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated [i], 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: bhojanacitādhyāyaḥ / samāpto 'yaṃ (f. 19r).
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 4850 (UP 659).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 659

OCLC:

861359471