Details

Other Title:

Saṅketakaumudi

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Also known as Harinātha.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for astrological predictions and divination and dealing with the transition of the sun, the moon, the earth, and other heavenly bodies. A diagram and table of numbers and characters related to calculations about planetary movements is at the end of the manuscript (f. 7v).

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Saṅketakaumudi supplied by cataloger.
Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīharināthācāryakṛtāyāṃ saṃketakaumudyāṃ bhāvaprakaraṇe caṃdrabhāvonāmadvitīyodhyāyaḥ // 2 // (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases 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 5094 (UP 1864).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1864.

OCLC:

946537220