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Title

Authors

• Gaṇeśadaivajña, active 1520-1554

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969133653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945971367
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6913365

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a manual and is associated with a larger a treatise on Hindu astronomy and mathematics. The work is comprised primarily of astrological tables used in predictive calculations and divination of events that affect the course of a person's life. The manuscript is divided into two parts.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; borders of tables are marked with double red line. Title page has small swastikas drawn around the title within a red border.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Tables throughout, f. 1v - f. 23r