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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960450153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861370958
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6045015

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and consultation and is a kind of manual and astrological work on divination that gives detailed descriptions of the nine planets of the Hindu astrological system as well as their place within the astrological stations. With some diagrams and a drawing of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa taken from another, newer, manuscript and used to reinforce the front and back cover of this manuscript.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13r).
   
• Written in 1-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1745 (1688) (f. 13r).
   
• 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 black line.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India
• Planets
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 679: Camatkāracintāmaṇi are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Ink illustration, diagrams and floral border, f. 1r
• fol. 13v — Tables, f. 13v