Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological work outlining various benefits received at different times of year and during different years of a 60 year cycle. Date of śaka 1512 (1590) is given for the composition of the work (not scribal date) at the beginning of the work (f. 1v).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti saṃkrāṃpraveśavāraphalaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 21r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; horizontal margins marked with double red lines on first folio (f. 1v).
A single wooden board supporting the manuscript has drawings of faces and figures and overlapping lines of writing on it.

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 4901 (UP 1874).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1874.

OCLC:

947844622