Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Hindu astronomy and mathematics and deals with the prediction and divination of events that affect the course of human life. A space for an astronomical table was created, but table was not drawn (f. 2v).

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
17 leaves foliated 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīsakalāgamācāryavaryaśrīkeśavasaṃvatsarātmagaṇeśasūriviracite grahalāghavāsiddhāṃtarahasye madhyamādhivagaraḥ prathamaḥ // (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black lines.

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 4685 (UP 699).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 699

OCLC:

867641209