Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript consists of tables for use in making predictions related to tracking the movement of the sun and the moon. Likely meant to be used in relationship to a treatise explaining the tables.

Notes:

Title for manuscript from title of first text from incipit (f. 1r); title of second text Aṃśādīni induaphalāni from second incipit (f. 2r).
Written in 13-19 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-2, [3-4], upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1798 (1876) (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers highlighted in red; tables marked with double and single red and purple 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 4798, 4799, and 4955 (UP 1913).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1913.

Contains:

Aṃśādīni induaphalāni.

OCLC:

949266167