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

Title

Authors

• Gaṇeśadaivajña, active 1520-1554

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968895253503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941981400
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6889525

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Hindu astronomy and mathematics and deals with the prediction and divination of events that affect the course of human life. A few astrological tables are drawn in the manuscript, some with numbers and letters and others left blank. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Laghucintāmaṇi supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and tables in red. Manuscript is treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect it from insect damage.
   
• Non-Latin script record
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v-3r — Empty table, f. 2v
• fol. 3v-4r — Table, f. 4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Empty table, f. 5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 6r