Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of astrological predictions, with tables containing numbers and abbreviations; drawing of cosmic serpent (f. i recto) employed for divining diseases (roga).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1, [i], 2-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti jyotiṣaprakaraṇe saṃgrahaḥ praśnāvicāraḥ śrīrastu // (f. 12v).
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; tables drawn with double red 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 5274 (UP 1880).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1880.

OCLC:

947857905