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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960449033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861361732
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6044903

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual for reading astrological signs for the purpose of divination and mathematical calculations based on planetary movements; text contains tables of numbers and Devanāgarī characters, abbreviated from names of planets.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: tryodazor [hṛdeṇa] rekhāstiraścīnās tathā daśaḥ // (f. 1v).
   
• 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 red line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1v-2r — Table, f. 1v
• fol. 3v — Table, f. 3v