Details

Subjects:

Lingas (Śaivism).
Mathematics.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Mathematics -- India.
Lingas (Śaivism) -- Pictorial works.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity) -- Art.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Pictorial works.
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Illustrated works.
Art.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Lakṣmīdhara (f. 29r).

Summary:

Treatise on Hindu astronomy (jyotiṣa) and mathematics, examining and considering the nature of a day (tithi) and how it should be calculated within broader cosmological systems.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 29r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 1-29, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadavākyapramāṇajñaśrīlakṣṃīdharasūreḥ sūnunābhaṭṭojIdīkṣitena viracitaḥ tithinirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 29r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. There is a drawing of the deity Gaṇeśa at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r).
Watermark of a coat of arms with the letters G.F.P.
Single wooden board with beveled edges supports manuscript. There is an ink drawing of a Śaiva temple with liṅga and surrounded by trees on the inner side facing toward 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 3101 (UP 1639).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1639.

OCLC:

930705411