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Title

Authors

• Rāma Daivajña, active 17th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967345143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880359934
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6074490

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life. Several astronomical tables of numbers and letters appear throughout the manuscript.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 38r).
   
• Written in 9-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 39 leaves foliated 1-29, 29-38, 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; some vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu mathematics
• Astronomy--India
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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