Details

Subjects:

Lizards.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Lizards -- Symbolic aspects.
Animals -- Symbolic aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise and manual on prognostication for dealing through different ritual practices with the negative effects that can be caused by house-lizards (pallī) falling onto the human body.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves.
Colophon: iti pallīsarayayoḥ phalaṃ likhitaṃ // śrī // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Scribe is Mairālabhaṭṭa (f. 2v).

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 5259 (UP 1892).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1892.

Contributor:

Mairālabhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

947871886