Details

Subjects:

Keśavācārya Daivajña, active 16th century. Jātakapaddhati.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a commentary on the Jātakapaddhati, an astrological treatise and manual dealing with previous births by Keśava Daivajña. The manuscript contains many tables, some of them with numbers and letters and some left blank. There is a drawing of a man sitting cross-legged with a sword at his side (f. 36v).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
39 leaves foliated 1-39, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1811 (1754) (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; many corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 5196 (UP 1777).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1777.

OCLC:

940571937