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

Title

Jyotiṣasaṃgraha
ज्योतिषसंग्रह]

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1906
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969725093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949265608

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Collection of short astrological texts, tables, yantras (sacred diagrams), and more, for personal use in making inquiries (praśna) into the future.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 32-36 lines per leaf.
   
• 29 leaves foliated 1-4, 6-8, 10-15, [16], 24, [25-27], 29-30, [31-39], 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; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables drawn with single and double red and black line.
   
• Bound on left margin as a codex, likely to make it easier to carry.
   

Extent

1 item (29 leaves) : 12 x 20 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India
• Yantras

Genres

• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Table, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Table, f. 3r