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Title

Authors

• Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967889203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930705274
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6788920

Publisher

Language

Summary

Treatise on Hindu astronomy (jyotiṣa) and mathematics, examining and considering the nature of a day (tithi) and how it should be calculated within broader cosmological systems.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 29r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 29 leaves foliated 1-29, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. There is a drawing of the deity Gaṇeśa at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r).
   
• Watermark of a coat of arms with the letters G.F.P.
   
• Single wooden board with beveled edges supports manuscript. There is an ink drawing of a Śaiva temple with liṅga and surrounded by trees on the inner side facing toward manuscript.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Mathematics--India
• Lingas (Śaivism)--Pictorial works
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)--Art

Genres

• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Ink drawing, f. 1r