Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a part of a larger treatise related to the twelve solar stations through which planets pass; used for astrological predictions for the purposes of divination. There is a diagram of a 6-petaled lotus flower with characters written inside as well as a small table with numbers and characters.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 18-19 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dvādaśabhāvavicāro moreśvareṇalikhitaḥ (f. 2v).
Scribe is Moreśvara (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double 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 5122 (UP 1911).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1911.

Contributor:

Moreśvara, scribe.

OCLC:

949265823