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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960621213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864306684
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6062121

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Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and consultation and is an astrological treatise related to the practice of divination by means of reading meaning into the movement of the various planets and the signs of the zodiac associated with them. Text contains tables containing numbers and Sanskrit characters, for understanding the movements of the sun and moon.

Notes

• Title from end title page (f. 10v).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, 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.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Divination--India
• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Astronomy--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 688: Jātakābharaṇa 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. 6v-7r — Tables, f. 7r
• fol. 7v-8r — Diagrams, f. 7v