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Title

Authors

• Gaṇeśadaivajña, active 1520-1554

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968966053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944199011
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6896605

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, including some astronomical tables with numbers.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Laghucintāmaṇi supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated after 1822 based on watermark (f. 1).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple red line; tables in double red lines.
   
• Watermarks of J & T Jellyman, 1822, and a coat of arms of Britannia.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v-4r — Table, f. 3v
• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 5v
• fol. 6v-7r — Table, f. 6v