Details

Standardized Title:

Tājikanīlakaṇṭhi. Selections

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Śrī Daivajñānanta who lived in Varāṇasī (f. 57r).

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual used for consultation of Hindu astrological tables and signs of divination and is part of a sub-section of a larger astrological and mathematical work by Nīlakaṇṭha. Lacks the beginning.

Notes:

Title from title colophon (f. 57r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
56 leaves foliated 2-57, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkāśīnivāsaśrīdaivajñānaṃtasutanīlakaṃṭhaviracitaṃvarṣataṃtraṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 57r).
Dated saṃvat 1864 (1806) (f. 57r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 5005 (UP 712).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 712

OCLC:

880360477