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

Title

Authors

• Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960620533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864303854
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6062053

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is an astrological text used by a priest or householder for the purpose of divining future events that will effect specific details of a person's life; contains discussions of planetary movements and agricultural themes, includes a diagram of a serpent with asterism within its body (f. 20v); also contains tables and charts containing Sanskrit syllables and numbers. Manuscript is incomplete and may have combined parts of two different manuscripts.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 23v).
   
• Written in 7-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 11-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and single line in some folios.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Divination--India
• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Astronomy--India
• Agriculture--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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