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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969570703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/946659241
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6957070

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Summary

Collection of tables (koṣṭhaka) functioning as a manual for calculating planetary movements and their joining into different astrological houses for the purpose of predicting and determining future events in a person's life.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12v).
   
• Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1854 (1797) (f. 12v).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables marked with single red lines.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
• Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Divination--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tables throughout, f. 1r-f. 12v