Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and consultation and is a kind of manual and treatise for divination of the events that affect human lives through an interpretation of the movement of the planets, based on early Vedic systems of astrology. Text is supplemented with an unidentified commentary written above and below and parallel to the main text. Title pages are written in reverse, with the front title panel being written on the final folio (f. 8v) and the final title being written on the front folio (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpārāśarahorāsamāptaḥ // (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 5131 (UP 674).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 674

OCLC:

861364757