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

Title

Authors

• Nīlakaṇṭha, active 16th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960449843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861362853
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6044984

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual and astrological/cosmological treatise used for contemplation and consultation for the purpose of divination and inward contemplation through a reading and correlation of planetary tables, an understanding of the different regions (varṣa) of the earth, etc.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 15v); alternate title Nīlakaṇṭhī supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1855 (1798) (f. 15v).
   
• 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 single red line; red rectangles bordering the title on title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Divination--India
• Cosmology--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Tantrism
• Hindu astrology

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2v-3r — Table, f. 3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Tables, f. 3v
• fol. 4v-5r — Table, f. 5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 5v
• fol. 6v-7r — Tables, f. 6v-7r