Details

Other Title:

Praśnamanoramā

Subjects:

Dice -- Religious aspects.
Hinduism.
Divination.
India.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Dice -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise on making predictions with three dice. An unidentified commentary (f. 3r-6r) accompanies the main text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Praśnamanoramā supplied by cataloger; title of commentary Manoramāmūlaṭīkā from abbreviations in margins.
Scribe is Rāmacandra (f. 6r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1832 (1775) (f. 6r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables marked with single 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 4976 (UP 1903).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1903.

Contributor:

Rāmacandra, scribe.

Contains:

Manoramāmūlaṭīkā.

OCLC:

949265537