Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and consultation and is a manual and treatise for divination of the events that affect human lives through an interpretation of the movement of the planets, based on early Vedic systems of astrology.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 37v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīparāsarahorāyāṃ viṃśodhyāyaḥ // samāptaṃ // (f. 37v).
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 5132 (UP 1827).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1827.

OCLC:

945368188