Praśnamāṇikya, circa 1700-1850.
प्रश्नमाणिक्य

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Caṇḍeśvara, active 14th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1884

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise about inquiring (praśna) into the future, possibly by the astrologer Caṇḍeśvara (f. 2v). Has a table of the 27 nakṣastras (houses of the moon) with numbers (f. 2v).

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti praśnamāṇikye kāryāvadhijñānākhyaprakaraṇaṃ // (f. 4v).
• 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 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 5143 (UP 1884).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1884.

OCLC:

947859408