Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used as a kind of manual and horoscope for predicting the future based on Hindu and especially early Vedic systems of astronomy. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 18r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 5-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmaddaivajñānaṃtasutanīlakaṃṭhaviracite varṣaphale varṣaviveke māsaphalādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // samāptaṃ cedraṃ varṣaphale varṣavivekākhyaṃ prakaraṇam // śubham astu // (f. 18r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse markers indicated 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 5006 (UP 651).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 651

OCLC:

861292846