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 a work about knowledge of predictive astrology attributed to the ancient sage Caṇḍeśvara. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
84 leaves foliated 21-104, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmahārājādhirājaśrīcaṃḍeśvarācāryaviracitāyāṃ caṃḍeśvarapraśnavidyāyāṃdreṣkāṇasvarūpanirūpaṇaṃnāmādhyāyaḥ samāptaścāyaṃ praśnacaṃḍeśvarākhyograṃtha śrīmanmaṃgalamūrtivijayate prajāptanāma saṃvat 1857 aśvanamāse spulkapakṣe dvatīyāyasanīvasare tādinapūptakasaṃpūrṇaḥ // (f. 104v).
Dated saṃvat 1857 (1800) (f. 104v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 4714 (UP 1835).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1835.

OCLC:

945370531