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Title

Caṇḍeśvarapraśnavidyā
चण्डेश्वरप्रश्नविद्या

Authors

• Caṇḍeśvara

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1835
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969069333503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945370531
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6906933

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a work about knowledge of predictive astrology attributed to the ancient sage Caṇḍeśvara. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 7v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 84 leaves foliated 21-104, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1857 (1800) (f. 104v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

1 item (84 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmahārājādhirājaśrīcaṃḍeśvarācāryaviracitāyāṃ caṃḍeśvarapraśnavidyāyāṃdreṣkāṇasvarūpanirūpaṇaṃnāmādhyāyaḥ samāptaścāyaṃ praśnacaṃḍeśvarākhyograṃtha śrīmanmaṃgalamūrtivijayate prajāptanāma saṃvat 1857 aśvanamāse spulkapakṣe dvatīyāyasanīvasare tādinapūptakasaṃpūrṇaḥ // (f. 104v).

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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