Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise on Hindu astrology that makes predictions during the year that affect human life, employing calculations based on planetary movements and employing a few astronomical tables drawn throughout the work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 41r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
41 leaves foliated 1-41, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadaivajñānaṃ sutanīlaka[ṇ]ṭharacilevarṣaphale varṣaviveke sasikalāghdhyāyaḥ saṃbat 1876 atha dasākram // janmārkṣasaṃvyāsahito gatāvdadriguiṇito naṃdahṛtāvaseṣe // anvakurājīsavukeśurvājayaṃ dasābhāvakulānusārataḥ 1 (f. 41r).
Dated saṃvat 1876 (f. 41r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; black lines mark the vertical margins on 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 5007 (UP 703).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 703

OCLC:

867635979