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Title

Muhūrtacintāmaṇi
मुहूर्तचिन्तामणि

Authors

• Rāma Daivajña, active 17th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1794
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968896203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/942017612
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6889620

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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 about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 63r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 63 leaves foliated 1-63, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1925 śaka 1790 (1868) (f. 63r).
   
• 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 (63 leaves) : 11 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīdaivajñānaṃtasutarāmaviracitāyāṃmuhūrtāciṃtāmaṇaugṛhapraneśaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 63r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

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

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