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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969133803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945973783
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6913380

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Summary

Manuscript is a commentary (ṭīkā) on an astrological treatise, possibly the Nīlakaṇṭhī by Nīlakaṇṭha. The text identifies with Persian-derived astrological knowledge, that is, as a Tajikaśāstra (fl 4v). There is one astrological table (f. 2r).

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India
• Astronomy--Iran

Genres

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Table, f. 2r
• fol. 6v-7r — Table, f. 6v