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Title

Śīghrabodha
शीघ्रबोध

Authors

• Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1770
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968777553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/938682844
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6877755

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a treatise used for consultation and study and is an astrological text used by a priest or householder to divine future events that will affect specific details of a person's life (pañjika or astrological almanac); contains discussions of planetary movements and other themes.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 47r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 47 leaves foliated 1-47, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1882 (1825) (f. 47r).
   
• 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 red line.
   

Extent

1 item (47 leaves) : 14 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīkāśināthabhaṭṭācāryaviractie śīghrabodhahoḍācakracaturthaprakaraṇaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ samāptam // (f. 47r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India
• Hindu astronomy
• Astronomy--India
• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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