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Title

Laghujātaka
लघुजातक

Authors

• Varāhamihira, 505-587
• Utpala, active 900-950

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1845
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969106103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945668577
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6910610

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Hindu treatise on astrological predictions based on an individual's birth, with a commentary (ṭīkā) by Utpala, the Laghujātakaṭīkā.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 46r).
   
• Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1833 (1776) (f. 46r).
   
• 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 black line.
   

Extent

1 item (46 leaves) : 12 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmadotpalaviracitāyāṃ jyotiṣalaghujātakaṭīkāyāṃ naṣṭajātakādhyīyastrayodaśamaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 46r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
• Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Divination--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 5v