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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960785043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867636494
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078504

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Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a kind of manual or guide book on making divinations and reading the alignment and conjunction of the planets within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; employed to make predictions. Consists primarily of small astronomical tables of numbers and letters with some descriptive content in the margins and between the tables.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8 rows per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right recto and verso.
   
• Incipit: śrī gaṃ // yaṃtrabhedadarśanaṃ kramato yathā // (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins and tables marked with double red line.
   
• Original outer wrapping lists the names of a number of other manuscripts possibly purchased along with this work.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

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