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Title

Authors

• Rāmacandra, Somayāji

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969494583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/946536846
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6949458

Publisher

Language

Summary

Hindu astrological treatise for making predictions about war and battles. Contains tables and diagrams with numbers and Sanskrit characters. There is an unidentified, incomplete astrological text, upside down, at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Samarasāra supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1672 (1750) (f. 7v).
   
• 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.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800
• Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Divination--India--Early works to 1800
• War--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Different text from main text, f. 1r
• fol. 1v-2r — Tables, f. 1v and f. 2r
• fol. 2v-3r — Tables, f. 2v and f. 3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Tables, f. 3v and f. 4r
• fol. 5v-6r — Diagram, f. 5v and Table, f. 6r
• fol. 6v-7r — Tables, f. 6v and f. 7r