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Title

Authors

• Gaṇeśadaivajña, active 1520-1554

Other related names

• Jośipañcyanadikara, Śivarāma, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968895993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/942008911
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6889599

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.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Laghucintāmaṇi supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1781 (1859) (f. 24r).
   
• Scribe is Śivarāma Jośipañcyanadikara (f. 24r).
   
• 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.
   
• A single wooden board supports the manuscript.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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