Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a commentary (vivṛti) on Hindu astronomical treatise by Dinakara called the Pātasāraṇī and includes a number of astronomical tables of numbers, letters, names of planetary bodies, and the like.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: samāptam udāharaṇaṃ / jyotiṣoyanāmakadinakareṇa kṛtaṃ śrīgajānanārpaṇam astu // śrīguarīgam asti (f. 9v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables outlined in red.

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 4986 (UP 697).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 697

OCLC:

865582333