Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968717713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936582761
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6871771

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Summary

Hindu astrological work with a horoscope that predicts the length of a person's life by contemplating the rotation of the stars. There are some horoscope tables, with numbers for calculations, at the end of the manuscript.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 25v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1793 (1881) (f. 25r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Watermarks with the company name Dorlin & Gregory, London; and the year 1880.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Horoscopes--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v-4r — Table, f. 3v