Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Moon -- Religious aspects.
Moon.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological work for contemplative use or consultation. Functioning as a kind of manual, this work discusses signs and gives predictions related to when the moon enters into a particular house of the zodiac.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 56v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
56 leaves foliated 1-43, 45-58, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīkāśināthoktalagnacaṃdrikā samāptāṃ // (f. 56v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 4674 (UP 711).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 711

OCLC:

880360275