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

Title

Authors

• Nīlakaṇṭha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960622153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864308642
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6062215

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and is a kind of manual for making astrological predictions of the effects of astral bodies on different aspects of life such as the removal of misfortune (ariṣṭabhaṅga), one's place of birth, and more. Small interesting doodles, with likely symbolic import found at the end of the manuscript (f. 23r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 23r); alternate title Tājika supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1699 (1777) (f. 23r).
   
• 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

• Hindu astrology
• Astronomy--India
• Divination--India
• Childbirth--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 22v-23r — Small drawings, f. 23r