Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions (divination) about the upcoming year. Contains two astronomical tables of letters and numbers. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 5v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left verso.
Dated saṃvat 1908 (1851) (f. 5r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Candī Datta (f. 5v) and by Baganbhaṭṭa Okar, written in a second scribal hand (f. 5r).

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 4899 (UP 1783).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1783.

Contributor:

Datta, Candī, former owner.
Okar, Baganbhaṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

941020791