Details

Other Title:

Nīlakaṇṭhī.

Subjects:

Cosmology.
Hinduism.
Divination.
India.
Divination -- India.
Cosmology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Tantrism.
Hindu astrology.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual and astrological/cosmological treatise used for contemplation and consultation for the purpose of divination and inward contemplation through a reading and correlation of planetary tables, an understanding of the different regions (varṣa) of the earth, etc.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 15v); alternate title Nīlakaṇṭhī supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī daivajñānaṃtaṃsutadaivattaśrīnīlakaṃṭhaviracitaṃ saṃjñātaṃtraṃ samāptaṃ // śrīsaṃvat 1855 śāke 1720 caitra śukladvitīyā caṃdre upādhyālakṣmaṇe naleśvakaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 15v).
Dated saṃvat 1855 (1798) (f. 15v).
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 single red line; red rectangles bordering the title on title page (f. 1r).

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 5009 (UP 670).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 670

OCLC:

861362854