Tryodazor hṛdeṇa rekhāsti, circa 1700-1850.
त्र्योदशोर्हृदेणरेखास्ति

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 666

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for reading astrological signs for the purpose of divination and mathematical calculations based on planetary movements; text contains tables of numbers and Devanāgarī characters, abbreviated from names of planets.

Notes:

• Title from incipit (f. 1v).
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
• Incipit: tryodazor [hṛdeṇa] rekhāstiraścīnās tathā daśaḥ // (f. 1v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 4948 (UP 666).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 666

OCLC:

861361733