Details

Other Title:

Pāśakakeralī
Pāśakevalī

Subjects:

Dice -- Religious aspects.
Hinduism.
Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.
Dice -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise on making predictions with dice.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate titles Pāśakakeralī and Pāśakevalī supplied by cataloger. List of numbers possibly for calculations on back cover (f. 11v). Manuscript is incomplete.
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 6-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgargakṣaṣikṛtāpāśakakevalīsamāptaṃ śubham astu // (f.11r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 4973 (UP 1879).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1879.

OCLC:

947857993