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Title

Authors

• Bharata Muni

Other related names

• Sadāśiva, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969032343503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944529515
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6903234

Publisher

Language

Summary

Hindu astrological treatise and commentary on Rāmacandra's Samarasāra, a manual for making predictions about war and battles. Contains tables with numbers and Sanskrit characters, and a drawing of a cosmic snake (f. 16v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 32r).
   
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-28, 31-32, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1581 or possibly 1681 (f. 32r), corresponding to 1659 or 1759.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or crossed out with black or red; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Scribe is Sadāśiva (f. 32r).
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
• Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Divination--India--Early works to 1800
• War--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Snakes--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Tables (documents)
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1826: Samarasāraṭīkā are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v-3r — Tables, f. 2v and f. 3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Table, f. 4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Table, f. 4v and f. 5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 6r
• fol. 7v-8r — Tables, f. 7v and f. 8r
• fol. 8v-9r — Tables, f. 8v and f. 9r
• fol. 10v-11r — Table, f. 11r
• fol. 11v-12r — Tables, f. 11v
• fol. 12v-13r — Table, f. 12v
• fol. 13v-14r — Tables, f. 13v and f. 14r
• fol. 14v-15r — Tables, f. 14v and f. 15r
• fol. 18v-19r — Table, f. 18v
• fol. 27v-28r — Table, f. 27v

Decorations

• fol. 16v-17r — Ink drawing of cosmic snake, f. 16v
• fol. 24v-25r — Diagram, f. 24v