Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of tables (koṣṭhaka) functioning as a manual for calculating planetary movements and their joining into different astrological houses for the purpose of predicting and determining future events in a person's life.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v).
Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti sūryamahānakṣatrakoṣṭhakāri saṃkramaṇakoṣṭhakāni vasamāptāni saṃ(vat) 1854 vai - śru - 3 śanaulicīre śvaramahāta 9 (f. 12v).
Dated saṃvat 1854 (1797) (f. 12v).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables marked with single red lines.

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 4814 (UP 1859).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1859.

OCLC:

946659241