Details

Standardized Title:

Makarandasāranī

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological manual or almanac (pañjikā) containing tables with numbers and letters employed to divine auspicious days and other events of a person's life.

Notes:

Title from marginal note (f. 1v).
38 leaves foliated 1-38, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables written in red.

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 4882 (UP 1788).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1788.

OCLC:

941960000