Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise, for the purpose of divination, regarding stations of the moon (nakṣatras), especially the one called Puṣya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībālabodhinīsaśrīrā samáptaṃ // (f. 5v).
Dated saṃvat 1930 and śaka 1750 (?) (f. 5v); the dating in the manuscript is contradictory since the śaka and saṃvat years do not align. The dates given are equivalent to 1838 and 1878.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 5145 (UP 1796).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1796.

OCLC:

944198627