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Title

Golādhyāya
गोलाध्याय

Authors

• Bhāskarācārya, 1114-

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1813
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969029293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944519545
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6902929

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a geometrical and astronomical treatise from the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi, on calculating the size of spheres and various geological formations. Considers the earth to be round. There are small diagrams with numbers written inside near the end of the manuscript. Manuscript lacks an ending and has confusing foliation with some leaves being foliated with two or three different numerical sequences.

Notes

• Title from incipit.
   
• Written in 5-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 117 leaves foliated 1, 1-82, 78-86, 91-115, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīsidhāṃtaśiromaṇivāsanāṃ bhāṣyomitākṣare golādhyāye ituvarṇanaṃ nāmādhyaya athapradhyāyovyakhyāyate // (f. 109v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (117 leaves) : 12 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy

Genres

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

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