Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological tables used for predicting the future, especially which days are auspicious in a given person's life. Some of the tables are incomplete, suggesting that the manuscript was still in use and incomplete. Includes some small diagrams and designs in pen and painted in a wash.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 12-20 lines per leaf.
27 leaves foliated 1-6, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8, 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; tables marked with single and double red lines.

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 4856 (UP 1799).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1799.

OCLC:

944199089