Details

Subjects:

Hindu astronomy.
Hindu astrology.
Sūrya (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Moon -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Moon.
Hinduism.
Satellites -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a supercommentary on the Sūryasiddhānta, a treatise on stations of the moon (nakṣatras), which is itself a commentary on Ṛgveda 1.50, a hymn to Sūrya, the Vedic god who personifies the sun. The manuscripts contains all three texts, in succession, verse by verse.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 49 (UP 2011).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2011.

Contains:

Sūryasiddhānta.
Vedas. R̥gveda. Selections

OCLC:

953736526