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 is used for contemplation and consultation and is an astrological divination text on subjects including divisions of time, astrological bodies, and reading of animal signs.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 73r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
73 leaves foliated 1-73, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnarapatijayacaryāyāṃ jyotiḥ śāstra samāptaḥ // (f. 73r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on a few folios.

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 5226 (UP 1831).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1831.

OCLC:

945368779