Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise about how to inquire and gain knowledge about the future. Work contains three other short texts on related material (f. 2v).

Notes:

Title for manuscript from title for first work from colophon (f. 2r-2v); titles of additional works Prasavapraśna, Darśanapraśna, and Saṃyogākṣarayukti from colophons (f. 2v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti praśnajñānavivekaḥ // (f. 2r-2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked 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 5137, 5152, 5168, and 5144 (UP 1883).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1883.

Contains:

Prasavapraśna.
Darśanapraśna.
Saṃyogākṣarayukti.

OCLC:

947858695