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Title

Jyotisāgagrantha
ज्योतिसागग्रन्थ

Other related names

• Cāpekara, Rāmacandra, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1836
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969069363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945370533
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6906936

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Treatise and collection of astrological wisdom and predictive calculations.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 61v); alternate title Jyotisāgara from internal colophon (f. 28v).
   
• Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 53 leaves foliated 9-61, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1712 (1800) (f. 61v).
   
• Scribe is Rāmacandra Cāpekara (f. 61v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (53 leaves) : 12 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: it jyotiṃ sāgagraṃthaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 61v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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