Details

Subjects:

Lizards.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Lizards -- Symbolic aspects.
Animals -- Symbolic aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise and manual on prognostication for making predictions about someone's life based on patterns observing falling house-lizards (pallī).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Explicit: śrī sāṃbasadāśivārpaṇam astu (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 5258 (UP 1773).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1773.

OCLC:

939524233