Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Astrology -- Poetry.
Astrology.

Form/Genre:

Poetry.
Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is an astrological treatise composed in the poetic meter of ślokas.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-17, [18], upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1791 and saṃvat 1926 (1869) (f. 17r).
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.
Scribe is Śivarāma Ciṃcalakara (f. 17r).

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 4830 (UP 1840).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1840.

Contributor:

Ciṃcalakara, Śivarāma, scribe.

OCLC:

945666647