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 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 about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life. There are no planetary tables typically found in copies of this manuscript. Manuscript is incomplete, missing beginning.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 15r).
Internal colophon: iti śrīmuhantacintāmaṇau gocarapnaprakaraṇaṃ samāptam // (15r).
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 7-17, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 5047 (UP 2734).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2734.

OCLC:

974381444