Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu treatise on astrological predictions based on an individual's birth, with a commentary (ṭīkā) by Utpala, the Laghujātakaṭīkā.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 46r).
Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadotpalaviracitāyāṃ jyotiṣalaghujātakaṭīkāyāṃ naṣṭajātakādhyīyastrayodaśamaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 46r).
Dated saṃvat 1833 (1776) (f. 46r).
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 black line.

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 5082 (UP 1845).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1845.

Contains:

Utpala, active 900-950. Laghujātakaṭīkā.

OCLC:

945668577