Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu astrological work for contemplative use or consultation. Functioning as a manual, this work discusses signs and gives predictions related to when the astrological bodies like the sun and moon enter into a particular house of the zodiac and is concerned with astrological health and healing, aligning the body cakra system (centers of power throughout the body) with astrological bodies.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 5182 (UP 1849).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1849.

OCLC:

945972024