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

Title

Other related names

• Datta, Candī, former owner
• Okar, Baganbhaṭṭa, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968869613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941020791
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6886961

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions (divination) about the upcoming year. Contains two astronomical tables of letters and numbers. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes

• Title from end title page (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1908 (1851) (f. 5r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Candī Datta (f. 5v) and by Baganbhaṭṭa Okar, written in a second scribal hand (f. 5r).
   

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Table, f. 2r
• fol. 2v-3r — Table, f. 2v