Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual of astronomical tables for daily consultations regarding planetary alignment and movements affecting human life.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-10 rows of each table per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal incipit: iti tithi koṣṭakaḥ na[kṣatra]ko[ṣṭhakā] [/] atha nakṣatrakoṣṭhakāḥ vā[rādi] prāraṃbhāḥ [hāraḥ] (f. 7r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical and horizontal lines of tables drawn with both single and double red lines.
Outer wrapping of text has notes and titles of five other manuscripts that were once housed with this manuscript. These manuscripts are numbered "No. 47" through to "No. 51"; the last of which corresponds to this manuscript.

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 5171 (UP 702).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 702

OCLC:

867641380