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Title

Authors

• Gargācārya

Other related names

• Rāmacandra, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969725063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949265537
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6972506

Publisher

Language

Summary

Astrological treatise on making predictions with three dice. An unidentified commentary (f. 3r-6r) accompanies the main text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Praśnamanoramā supplied by cataloger; title of commentary Manoramāmūlaṭīkā from abbreviations in margins.
   
• Scribe is Rāmacandra (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1832 (1775) (f. 6r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables marked with single red line.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table, f. 1r
• fol. 6v — Table, f. 6v