Details

Subjects:

Mathematics.
India.
Hindu astronomy.
Hindu astrology.
Mathematics -- India.

Form/Genre:

Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is possibly a pañjika (astrological almanac) for the purpose of interpreting and making predictions related to someone's life based on Hindu astronomy and mathematics. Contains a number of tables and charts containing numbers and letters for the purpose of predictions.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 22v).
Written in 18-21 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-22, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīṛṣiśarmacāryaviracitāyāṃ jñānamaṃjaryyāṃ akṣaraprśnavidyā samāptaḥ // l - maṃ - jī saṃ - 1925 (f. 22v).
Dated saṃvat 1925 (1868) (f. 22v); there is an embossed seal with the date of 1867 on it (f. 17v)
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Bound as a codex with string and a paper binding using an adhesive.

Penn Provenance:

Dates of saṃvat 1935 and 1937 (1878 and 1880) from former owners (f. 23v).

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 4671 (UP 1769).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1769.

OCLC:

938681316