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 an astrological treatise in two parts: the first is part of a compendium of astrological knowledge (a saṃgraha), the second is a predictive work based on a person's birth.

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 3v).
Written in 14-17 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-3, (Part 2) 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kālajātakaṃ // śake 1766 // dvitīyaśrāvaṇakṛtya 10 maṃdavāsare sa[ṃ]vat 1899 śrīsāṃvasadāśivārpaṇam astu // (Part 2, f. 3v).
Dated śaka 1766 (1844) and saṃvat 1899 (1842) (Part 2, f. 3v).
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 4953 and 5203 (UP 1832).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1832.

OCLC:

945384298