Details

Other Title:

Tājakaṇīlakaṇṭhi

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual and astrological treatise used for contemplation and consultation and deals with the twelve bhavas which are aligned with the twelve signs of the zodiac. Includes some tables with numbers and characters.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 50r); alternate title Tājakaṇīlakaṇṭhi from lower cover page (f. 50v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
50 leaves foliated 1-50, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: idaṃ / nīlakaṃṭipustakaṃ saṃpūrṇam astū (f. 50r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 5000b (UP 1867).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1867.

OCLC:

946537592