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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960450113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861364752
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6045011

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Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and consultation and is a kind of manual and treatise for divination of the events that affect human lives through an interpretation of the movement of the planets, based on early Vedic systems of astrology. Text is supplemented with an unidentified commentary written above and below and parallel to the main text. Title pages are written in reverse, with the front title panel being written on the final folio (f. 8v) and the final title being written on the front folio (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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