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Title

Authors

• Nārāyaṇadaivajña, active 16th century

Other related names

• Govinda Jośī Pañcanadīkara, scribe
• Govinda Jośī Pañcanadīkara, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969030173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944523214
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6903017

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and is an astrological treatise that deals with predictions related to different life cycle stages, and related to starting a sacred fire and the construction of buildings, among other subjects. There are tables with numbers and characters associated with planets and astral bodies (such as the sun and moon).

Notes

• Title from end title page (f. 24v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• End title page: iti muhūrttamārtaṃḍaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 24v).
   
• Dated śaka 1766 (1844) (f. 24r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.
   
• Scribe is Govinda Jośī Pañcanadīkara (f. 24r).
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Govinda Jośī Pañcanadīkara (f. 24r).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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