Details

Other Title:

Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection of astrological inquiries (praśna) that function as a treatise about divining the future. There is a table with numbers and abbreviations (f. 7r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9v); alternate title Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha from incipit.
Written in 25-29 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper middle verso.
Colophon: iti muhūrtarājasamāptaḥ // saṃ[vat] 1869 (f. 9v).
Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (f. 9v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; table drawn with red lines (f. 7r).
Manuscript and text oriented in portrait rather than landscape format; the narrow top of each folio has six holes where stitching once held it together.

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 4852, 5149 (UP 1885).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1885.

OCLC:

947843053