Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a kind of manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions about the upcoming year related various aspects of human life. Manuscript contains an unknown commentary running vertically above and below the main text.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in upper left margins, verso.
Written in 11-17 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 5050 (UP 693).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 693

OCLC:

865582217