Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Rāma Daivajña, active 17th century. Muhūrtacintāmaṇi.
Hindu astrology.
Indian philosophy.
Divination -- India.
Time -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and consultation and is an astrological treatise along with a commentary by the same author for the purposes of divination through a reading of time divisions and astrological signs based on the planets and other phenomena. Tables with syllables and numbers added in second scribal hand.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 29v).
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 1-29, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīdaivajñānatasutadaivajñarāmaviracitāyāṃ svakṛtamuhūrttaciṃtāmaṇī ṭīkāyāṃ pratitākṣaṇyāṃ rājābhiṣekaprakaraṇaṃ samāptam / (f. 29v).
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 black line.
Manuscript formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390 Item 682.

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 5053 (UP 681).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 681

OCLC:

861758088