Details

Other Title:

Tājika.

Subjects:

Divination.
Astronomy.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Astronomy -- India.
Divination -- India.
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and is a kind of manual for making astrological predictions of the effects of astral bodies on different aspects of life such as the removal of misfortune (ariṣṭabhaṅga), one's place of birth, and more. Small interesting doodles, with likely symbolic import found at the end of the manuscript (f. 23r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23r); alternate title Tājika supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnīlakaṃṭhakṛtaṃ tājakaṃ samāptam // śrī // navāṃkaṣaṭcaṃdramite śake 1699 ca pauṣasya kṛṣṇe ṣṭatithīṃduvāre // moreśvarākhyaś ca vasiṣṭhagotra[j?e] anaṃtarāmātmaja[j?e] likhe[?]muṃ // (f. 23r).
Dated śaka 1699 (1777) (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; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 5000 (UP 690).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 690

OCLC:

864308643