Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life. There are tables and diagrams related to the planets.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 40v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
40 leaves foliated 1-40, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī anaṃtadaivajñāsutarāmadaivajñaviracite muhūrtaciṃtāmaṇaugṛhapraveśaprakaraṇaṃsaṃpūrṇa // (f. 40v).
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.

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 5045 (UP 1858).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1858.

OCLC:

945976260