Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise on the movement of planets and their conjunction with other celestial bodies and the meaning this has for predictions made in a given year.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1786 (1729) (f. 11v).
Scribe is Rāmacandra Śukla (f. 11v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables and numbers 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 4910 (UP 1889).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1889.

Contributor:

Rāmacandra Śukla, scribe.

OCLC:

947864897