Details

Standardized Title:

Siddhāntaśiromaṇi. Selections

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise from the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi, on astrology and mathematics as derived from planetary movements and used for predictions about a marriage ceremony. There is a small table drawn with diagonal lines with numbers and characters written inside of them as well as two columns with headings for candra and sūrya nakṣatras, that is, the constellations through which the moon and sun pass (f. 4v). Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-2, 4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kautukalilāvatī samāptaṃ (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases and numbers highlighted in red.

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 5105 (UP 1861).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1861.

OCLC:

946536744