Details

Other Title:

Jyotisāgara

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise and collection of astrological wisdom and predictive calculations.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 61v); alternate title Jyotisāgara from internal colophon (f. 28v).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
53 leaves foliated 9-61, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: it jyotiṃ sāgagraṃthaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 61v).
Dated śaka 1712 (1800) (f. 61v).
Scribe is Rāmacandra Cāpekara (f. 61v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4847 (UP 1836).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1836.

Contributor:

Cāpekara, Rāmacandra, scribe.

OCLC:

945370533