Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise on results and predictions related to the planet Venus as it enters into different stations of the moon (nakṣastra). Manuscript may include parts of other astrological works as well.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-6, 8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śukradaśītarddaśāphalavibhāgaḥ // bairavatārttaḍīyadaśāvibharagasamāptaḥ // (f. 6v).
Scribe is Viṭhalabhaṭa (f. 6r).
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.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bāpaṭa Kṛṣṇabhaṭa (f. 6r).

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 5100 (UP 1887).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1887.

Contributor:

Viṭhalabhaṭa, scribe.
Bāpaṭa Kṛṣṇabhaṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

947861257