Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

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