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

Title

Authors

• Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya

Other related names

• Rājarāma Madhumatya (Son of Gaṅgādhara), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969069013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945368603
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6906901

Publisher

Language

Summary

Astrological work associated with health; a series of figure drawings are embedded in tables with numbers and letters and aligned with points of bodily power or cakras; these cakras are aligned with different planets for the purpose of predicting the future of one's health. There are tables and diagrams with numbers and characters.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 34v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 34 leaves foliated 1-33, [34], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Rājarāma Madhumatya, son of Gaṅgādhara (f. 34r).
   
• 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. There is a decorative floral border on the front cover in red (f. 1r)
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India
• Chakras

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Tables, f. 1v and f. 2r
• fol. 3v-4r — Table and diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Tables, f. 4v and f. 5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Tables, f. 5v and f. 6r
• fol. 6v-7r — Table, f. 6v; Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v-8r — Table and diagrams, f. 7v
• fol. 8v-9r — Tables, f. 8v and f. 9r
• fol. 9v-10r — Table and diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 10v-11r — Table, f. 10v
• fol. 11v-12r — Tables, f. 12r
• fol. 13v-14r — Table, f. 14r
• fol. 14v-15r — Table, f. 14v
• fol. 15v-16r — Table, f. 15v
• fol. 17v-18r — Tables, f. 17v and f. 18r
• fol. 18v-19r — Table, f. 19r
• fol. 19v-20r — Table, f. 19v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Floral border, f. 1r