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

Title

Authors

• Gadādhara

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968824403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939718741
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6882440

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is possibly a pañjika (astrological almanac) or a manual for creating one and is 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 in cells for the purpose of predictions.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 24v).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1761 (1704) (f. 24v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• A single wooden board is supports the manuscript and has writing on it which appears to be a list or table of contents.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
• Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Divination--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v-3r — Tables, f. 2v and f. 3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Table, f. 4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Tables, f. 4v and f. 5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 5v
• fol. 8v-9r — Tables, f. 9r
• fol. 9v-10r — Table, f. 9v; Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 10v-11r — Table, f. 11r
• fol. 11v-12r — Table and sketch, f. 11v; Tables, f. 12r
• fol. 12v-13r — Table, f. 13r
• fol. 13v-14r — Tables, f. 13v
• fol. 14v-15r — Table, f. 14v
• fol. 17v-18r — Table and diagram, f. 18r
• fol. 19v-20r — Table, f. 20r
• fol. 21v-22r — Diagram, f. 22r
• fol. 22v-23r — Diagrams, f. 22v and f. 23r
• fol. 23v-24r — Table, f. 24r
• fol. 24v-Inside wooden board — Tables, f. 24v