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

Title

Jñānamañjarī
ज्ञानमञ्जरी

Authors

• Rṣiśarman

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1769
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968777493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/938681397
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6877749

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is possibly a pañjika (astrological almanac) for the purpose of interpreting and making predictions related to someone's life based on Hindu astronomy and mathematics. Contains a number of tables and charts containing numbers and letters for the purpose of predictions.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 22v).
   
• Written in 18-21 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-22, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1925 (1868) (f. 22v); there is an embossed seal with the date of 1867 on it (f. 17v)
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Bound as a codex with string and a paper binding using an adhesive.
   

Extent

1 item (23 leaves) : 21 x 16 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīṛṣiśarmacāryaviracitāyāṃ jñānamaṃjaryyāṃ akṣaraprśnavidyā samāptaḥ // l - maṃ - jī saṃ - 1925 (f. 22v).

Provenance

• Dates of saṃvat 1935 and 1937 (1878 and 1880) from former owners (f. 23v).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Mathematics--India

Genres

• Tables (documents)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Table, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Table and diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 7r — Table, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Table, f. 7v
• fol. 9v — Table, f. 9v
• fol. 10v — Table, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Table, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Table, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Tables, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Table, f. 13r
• fol. 16v — Table, 16v
• fol. 18v — Tables, f. 18v
• fol. 19v — Tables, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Table, f. 20r
• fol. 21v — Table, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Table, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Table, f. 22v

Decorations

• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 21r — Diagrams, f. 21r