Details

Standardized Title:

Jaiminisūtra. Selections

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu astrological work employed to make predictions about events in human lives drawing on readings and calculations of the movements of planets and other heavenly bodies as they move into the various astrological houses (bhāvas). This text represents adhyāyas 1-2 of a larger work and attributed to the ancient author/sage named Jaimini.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti jaiminisūtre dvitīyādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // śake 1800 (f. 4v).
Dated śaka 1800 (1878) (f. 4v).
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 4834 (UP 706).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 706

OCLC:

867641323