Details

Subjects:

Mathematics.
Rites and ceremonies.
Dharma.
India.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Mathematics -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise on Hindu law (dharma) regarding 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. 26r).
Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti gaṃgārāmaviracitas tithinirṇayaḥ // (f. 26r).
Scribe is Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa Citale (f. 26r).
Dated saṃvat 1667 (1610) (f. 26r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 3100 (UP 1648).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1648.

Contributor:

Citale, Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

931706722