Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection of two astrological treatises dealing with the influence of dominant planets on human life, one charting out a system of divination for 108 years; contains a number of astronomical tables of numbers and symbols.

Notes:

Title for manuscript from colophon of primary work (f. 16v); title of secondary work Aṣṭottarīdaśākrama from internal colophon (f. 5r).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity evaṃ mahādaśāṃtardaśāvidaśopadaśāphalāni samāptāni // (f. 16v).
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 5096 and 4885 (UP 701).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 701

Contains:

Aṣṭottarīdaśākrama.

OCLC:

867635857