Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise from the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi, on mathematics as derived from planetary movements. There are small tables and diagrams with geometric shapes (primarily triangles) with numbers written inside of them.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 30r).
Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
34 leaves foliated 7-40, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhāskarācāryaviracitāyāṃgaṇitapādyāṃ līlāvasāṃśreṭīvyavahāraḥ // (f. 30r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4758 (UP 1812).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1812.

OCLC:

944519182