Details

Subjects:

Snakes -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
War -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Divination.
India.
Rāmacandra, Somayāji. Samarasāra -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.
War -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Snakes -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Tables (documents)
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological treatise and commentary on Rāmacandra's Samarasāra, a manual for making predictions about war and battles. Contains tables with numbers and Sanskrit characters, and a drawing of a cosmic snake (f. 16v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 32r).
Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-28, 31-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrāmavājapeyīkṛtamūle bharatakṛata ṭīkāyāṃ sarvopakartārājñāṃvijayapradoyaṃ samarasāraḥ svarārthyapūrṇaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 31r).
Dated śaka 1581 or possibly 1681 (f. 32r), corresponding to 1659 or 1759.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or crossed out with black or red; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Sadāśiva (f. 32r).
Watermarks of a coat of arms.

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 5242 (UP 1826).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1826.

Contributor:

Sadāśiva, scribe.

OCLC:

944529515