Details

Other Title:

Praśnasāra

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Short Hindu astrological work about inquiring into future events based on calendrical observations, etc. Manuscript has a number of tables and diagrams with characters and numbers employed in divination techniques.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 24r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dhānyosatipnakarṇaṃ // itī śrīpraśnacūḍāmaṇiḥ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 23r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out. Manuscript is written on blue European-made paper.
Watermarks with the name Dorling and Gregory, London, as well as possibly part of a cross or a coat of arms.

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 5136 (UP 1792).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1792.

OCLC:

942015226