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Title

Authors

• Caṇḍeśvara, active 14th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969652423503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/947859408
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6965242

Publisher

Language

Summary

Astrological treatise about inquiring (praśna) into the future, possibly by the astrologer Caṇḍeśvara (f. 2v). Has a table of the 27 nakṣastras (houses of the moon) with numbers (f. 2v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v-3r — Table, f. 2v