Details

Subjects:

Mandala.
Palmistry.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Palmistry -- India.
Omens -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Mandala -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Drawings (visual works)
Paintings (visual works)
Prayers (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and guide for a palm reader, featuring large red hand with signs, omens, and various related pictures. Back of manuscript contains various prayers, maṇḍalas, diagrams, and notes.

Notes:

Title from wrapper notes.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions.
Folded into 10 small sections, measuring 10.5 x 20.5 cm.

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 5278 (UP 778).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 778.

OCLC:

988033126