Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Name written as Kṛpāśaṃkara in the manuscript (f. 46v).

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise and manual with tables and diagrams employed for predictions through mathematical calculations; it includes the second part of the Horāvalī called the Tājakaviṭhapa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 46v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti jyotiṣkedāre horāvalyāṃ tājakaviṭhape 'ṣṭamapaṃllavaḥ 8 horāvalli // 3 // (f. 46v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
A single board supports the manuscript. It has a flower drawn in black in the center, along with a Sanskrit prayer dedicated to the deity Gaṇeśa.

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 4676 (UP 1869).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1869.

OCLC:

947842267