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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969651103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/947843053
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6965110

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Summary

Manuscript is a collection of astrological inquiries (praśna) that function as a treatise about divining the future. There is a table with numbers and abbreviations (f. 7r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9v); alternate title Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha from incipit.
   
• Written in 25-29 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper middle verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (f. 9v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; table drawn with red lines (f. 7r).
   
• Manuscript and text oriented in portrait rather than landscape format; the narrow top of each folio has six holes where stitching once held it together.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 6v-7r — Table, f. 7r