Details

Subjects:

Lizards.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Lizards -- Symbolic aspects.
Animals -- Symbolic aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise and manual on prognostication for making predictions about someone's life based on patterns observing falling house-lizards (pallī). Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
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 5257 (UP 1767).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1767.

OCLC:

938031959