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

Title

Authors

• Vājapeyī

Other related names

• Nihmala, Viśvanātha Sauvajña, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617283503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819548673
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861728

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used and consulted by priests on the creation of a mystical diagram of "overall auspiciousness" (sarvatobhadra) for determining a variety of astrological issues and predictions. Contains some charts and diagrams of number and characters. Part of a larger astrological work called the Samarasāra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 28v).
   
• Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Viśvanātha Sauvajña Nihmala.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1872 and śaka 1737 (1815) (f. 28v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Omens--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2v-3r — chart [3r]
• fol. 3v-4r — chart [4r]
• fol. 4v-5r — chart [4v], two tables [5r]
• fol. 5v-6r — chart [6r]
• fol. 9v-10r — chart [9v], chart [10r]
• fol. 10v-11r — chart [10v]
• fol. 11v-12r — chart [12r]
• fol. 16v-17r — diagram [16v]
• fol. 20v-21r — diagram [20v]
• fol. 23v-24r — diagram [23v]
• fol. 26v-27r — table [26v]