Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Astrology -- Poetry.
Astrology.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is an astrological work composed in the poetic meter of ślokas. An unidentified commentary runs parallel, above and below the main text. Two tables of syllables are written in a second scribal hand on the back of the manuscript (f. 53v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 53r).
Written in 7-11 lines per leaf.
33 leaves foliated 14-21, 29-52, [53], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgaṇeśasūriracine jātakālaṃkāre saptamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 53r).
Dated saṃvat 1933 (1876) (f. 53r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.

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 4707 (UP 684).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 684

OCLC:

861758404