Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Tantrism.
Divination -- India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological/tantric treatise connected to the theology of the Hindu deity Śiva and Śivā (female counterpart to Śiva); used for astrological predictions and for the purposes of divination. Contains two texts: the first is the Śivālikhita and the second is the Śivājñā.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r); section title Śivālikhita from internal colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śivājñāsaṃpūrṇā // (f. 4r).
Mistakes crossed out in black.

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 4915 (UP 662).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 662

Contains:

Śivālikhita.

OCLC:

861360369