Details

Subjects:

Astronomy.
Divination.
India.
Divination -- India.
Hindu astronomy.
Hindu astrology.
Astronomy -- India.
Agriculture -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Planets -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is an astrological text used by a priest or householder for the purpose of divining future events that will effect specific details of a person's life; contains discussions of planetary movements and agricultural themes, includes a diagram of a serpent with asterism within its body (f. 20v); also contains tables and charts containing Sanskrit syllables and numbers. Manuscript is incomplete and may have combined parts of two different manuscripts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23v).
Written in 7-13 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 11-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśīghrabodhaḥ samāptaḥ saṃpūrṇam // śubham // (f. 23v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and single line in some folios.

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 4963 (UP 686).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 686

OCLC:

864303866