Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

A manual of astrological tables with numbers associated with planetary movements in order to make predictions.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 14 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; tables marked with single and double red lines. Swastikas are drawn on the cover within a red border.

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 4907 (UP 1848).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1848.

OCLC:

945971646