Details

Standardized Title:

Makarandasāranī

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise on predictive Hindu astrology. There is a table with numbers and with headings about planetary bodies above each column. Manuscript is incomplete and lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and black lines. Tables drawn with red lines

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 4831 (UP 1839).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1839.

OCLC:

945728923