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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969030103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944522814
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6903010

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Summary

Opening of an astrological treatise presented as if it were direct revelation from the Sun (Sūrya). There is an unidentified commentary running parallel above and below the root text. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Several folios are treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Sūrya (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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