Details

Other Title:

Laghucintāmaṇi

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Hindu astronomy and mathematics and deals with the prediction and divination of events that affect the course of human life, including some astronomical tables with numbers.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Laghucintāmaṇi supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsakalāgamācāryakeśavasāṃvatsarātmajagagaṇeśadaivajaviracite grahalāghave siddhāṃtarahasye sūryagrahaṇādhikāraḥ // (f. 10v).
Dated after 1822 based on watermark (f. 1).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple red line; tables in double red lines.
Watermarks of J & T Jellyman, 1822, and a coat of arms of Britannia.

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 4688 (UP 1798).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1798.

OCLC:

944199011