Details

Other Title:

Spaṣṭajanmakālabīja

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological manual related to the position of the planets at the time of birth.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title Spaṣṭajanmakālabīja derived from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti spaṣṭakālabījaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīrastu // (f. 2r).
Dated śaka 1655 (1733) (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 5175 (UP 1781).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1781.

OCLC:

940554126