Details

Subjects:

Chakras.
Medicine.
Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Chakras -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological work associated with health; a series of figure drawings are embedded in tables with numbers and letters and aligned with points of bodily power or cakras; these cakras are aligned with different planets for the purpose of predicting the future of one's health.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 38v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
38 leaves foliated 1-38, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkāśināthakṛtau śīghravodhe saṃpūrṇaṃ śubham astu saṃvat 1823 (f. 38v).
Dated saṃvat 1823 (1767) (f. 38v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 4965 (UP 1804).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1804.

OCLC:

944199403