Details

Other Title:

Samarasāra

Subjects:

War -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.
War -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Named Rāma Vājapeya in the manuscript (f. 7v).

Summary:

Hindu astrological treatise for making predictions about war and battles. Contains tables and diagrams with numbers and Sanskrit characters. There is an unidentified, incomplete astrological text, upside down, at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Samarasāra supplied by cataloger.
Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrāmavājapeyena viracitaḥ samarasaṃgrahaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 7).
Dated śaka 1672 (1750) (f. 7v).
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 5240 (UP 1860).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1860.

OCLC:

946536846