Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1845: Laghujātaka
University of Pennsylvania
These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1845: Laghujātaka are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Title from colophon (f. 46r).
Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1833 (1776) (f. 46r).
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.
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206.
University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1845
9969106103503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945668577
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6910610
Hindu treatise on astrological predictions based on an individual's birth, with a commentary (ṭīkā) by Utpala, the Laghujātakaṭīkā.
In Sanskrit
Laghujātaka
लघुजातक
Varāhamihira, 505-587
Utpala, active 900-950
Colophon: iti śrīmadotpalaviracitāyāṃ jyotiṣalaghujātakaṭīkāyāṃ naṣṭajātakādhyīyastrayodaśamaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 46r).
5v-6r
Table, f. 5v
paper
1 item (46 leaves) : 12 x 27 cm
Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800
Divination--India--Early works to 1800
Commentaries
Treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century