Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is possibly a pañjika (astrological almanac) or a manual for creating one and is 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 in cells for the purpose of predictions.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 24v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti jñāṃnamaṃjarīsaṃpūrṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 24v).
Dated saṃvat 1761 (1704) (f. 24v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
A single wooden board is supports the manuscript and has writing on it which appears to be a list or table of contents.

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 4710 (UP 1778).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1778.

OCLC:

939718741