Details

Subjects:

Astronomy.
Divination.
India.
Divination -- India.
Hindu astronomy.
Hindu astrology.
Astronomy -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and is an astrological treatise that deals with predictions related to different life cycle stages, related to marriage and sacred thread ceremony for boys, among others.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23r).
Written in 23 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadanaṃtākhyacāturmāsyayājiputranārāyaṇaviracimuhurttamārttaṃḍe samāptam // svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca likhitaṃ // (f. 23r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4994 (UP 689).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 689

OCLC:

864306736