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

Title

Authors

• Rāma Daivajña, active 17th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975805693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974381444
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7580569

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life. There are no planetary tables typically found in copies of this manuscript. Manuscript is incomplete, missing beginning.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 15r).
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīmuhantacintāmaṇau gocarapnaprakaraṇaṃ samāptam // (15r).
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 7-17, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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