Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or treatise used for astrological predictions and contains tables and number graphs for the purposes of divination and considers the lunar alignment of a person's birth.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 17-18 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti yoginīdaśāṃtardaśāphalaṃ samāptam śubham samvat 1892 mitibhādrapade site pakṣe lohanīviṣṇudattena svārthaṃ likhitam lekhakapāṭhakayoḥ śubham // (f. 2v).
Dated saṃvat 1892 (1835) (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Scribe is Viṣṇudaṭṭa (f. 2v).

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 5150 (UP 661).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 661

Contributor:

Viṣṇudaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

861360031