Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu astrological manual and treatise for understanding the significance of a person's birth and divining what the future holds for them.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bṛhajjātake varāhamihirakṛta ariṣṭādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 5r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, words, and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with triple 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 5063 (UP 1793).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1793.

OCLC:

942016171