Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological treatise and manual for prognostication based on observations of signs related to lizards.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated [1-2], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: dūlī[?] pallīsaraṭasya vicāraḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out.

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 5265 (UP 1774).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1774.

OCLC:

939524400