Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Rāma and younger brother of Śiva (f. 3r).

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu astrological almanac (pañjikā) and a registry of actions over the course of someone's life, predictive and historical. Written for Jāgeśvara (f. 3r).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 3r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 3-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Scribe is Vijñāgadādhara, son of Daivajñalakṣmīdhara (f. 7v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 4726 (UP 1800).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1800.

Contributor:

Vijñāgadādhara (Son of Daivajñalakṣmīdhara), scribe.
Jāgeśvara, former owner.

OCLC:

944199165