Details

Other Title:

Muhūrtamārtaṇḍaṭīkā.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual for reading and interpreting signs for charting out astrological moments (muhūrta), according to Hindu astrology, that will occur in one's life in order to make the best decisions and elicit the most benefit from it. There is a small astrological chart or table at the end of the work (f. 52v). An extensive, unidentified commentary runs parallel, above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviation in margins; commentary title Muhūrtamārtaṇḍaṭīkā from title abbreviation in margins.
Written in 13 lines per leaf.
55 leaves foliated 1-32, [33-55], upper left and lower right verso.
Dated after 1849, based on watermark.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through the beginning of the manuscript.
Watermarks with the date 1849 and the company name of Warren & Sons.
Single wooden board with a carved border.

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 4997 (UP 1787).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1787.

OCLC:

927455336