Details

Subjects:

Horoscopes.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Horoscopes -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological work with a horoscope that predicts the length of a person's life by contemplating the rotation of the stars. There are some horoscope tables, with numbers for calculations, at the end of the manuscript.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 25v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmaheśvaragaurīsaṃvāde gaurījātake āyurdāyadaśāphalāni samāptāni // (f. 25r).
Dated śaka 1793 (1881) (f. 25r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Watermarks with the company name Dorlin & Gregory, London; and the year 1880.

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 5220 (UP 1766).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1766.

OCLC:

936582775