Details

Subjects:

Mathematics.
Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.
Hindu mathematics.
Mathematics -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise and an ancient textbook on mathematics as derived from planetary movements.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, 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. Written on blue European paper.

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 4757 (UP 1795).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1795.

OCLC:

942018336