Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Tables (documents)
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a kind of manual or guide book on making divinations and reading the alignment and conjunction of the planets within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; employed to make predictions. Consists primarily of small astronomical tables of numbers and letters with some descriptive content in the margins and between the tables.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 8 rows per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right recto and verso.
Incipit: śrī gaṃ // yaṃtrabhedadarśanaṃ kramato yathā // (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins and tables marked with double red line.
Original outer wrapping lists the names of a number of other manuscripts possibly purchased along with this work.

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 4890 (UP 708).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 708

OCLC:

867636495