Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Tables (documents)
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. There are tables and diagrams with numbers and characters.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 34v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
34 leaves foliated 1-33, [34], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti maṃtrāraṃbhaḥ iti kāśināthayabhaṭṭācāryakṛtau śighrabodhe mūhartaprakaraṇasamāptaṃ graṃthasamāptaṃ (f. 34r).
Scribe is Rājarāma Madhumatya, son of Gaṅgādhara (f. 34r).
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 red line. There is a decorative floral border on the front cover in red (f. 1r)

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 4966 (UP 1828).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1828.

Contributor:

Rājarāma Madhumatya (Son of Gaṅgādhara), scribe.

OCLC:

945368603