Details

Standardized Title:

Jātakālaṅkāra Selections

Other Title:

Bhāvādivicāra.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is an astrological work composed in the poetic meter of ślokas. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Bhāvādivicāra supplied by cataloger.
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgaṇeśaviracitajātakālaṃkāre bhāvādhyāyaḥ samāptaś cāyaṃ gṛṃthaḥ // śrīsaṃvat 1889 govarddhanabhaṭṭago[?]lasyena likhitaṃ śrīrastu (f. 12v).
Dated saṃvat 1889 (1832) (f. 12v).
Scribe is Govardhanabhaṭṭa (f. 12v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 4705 (UP 685).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 685

Contributor:

Govardhanabhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

861758427