Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Hindu women.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual or guide that is a birth horoscope for women (strī); possibly taken from the Yavanajātaka, a work sometimes attributed to Yavanācārya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 15r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vṛddhayavane strījātake svasthānaphalādhyāyaḥ // (f. 15r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red at the beginning of the manuscript.

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 5201 (UP 1772).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1772.

Contains:

Yavanācārya. Yavanajātaka.

OCLC:

939523902