Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Divination -- India.
Planets.
Planets -- Aeronautics.
Planets -- Age.
Planets -- Core.
Planets -- Density.
Planets -- Mantles.
Planets -- Mass.
Planets -- Radiation.
Planets -- Rotation.
Planets -- Seasons.
Planets -- Transits.
Planets -- Wind erosion.
Planets -- Winds.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or treatise related to the twelve (dvādaśa) solar stations through which planets pass; used for astrological predictions for the purposes of divination.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 5123 (UP 663).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 663

OCLC:

861360770