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Title

Authors

• Gaṇeśadaivajña, active 1520-1554

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960788443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867641233
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078844

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Hindu astronomy and mathematics and deals with the prediction and divination of events that affect the course of human life. A space for an astronomical table was created, but table was not drawn (f. 2v).

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 3r).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 17 leaves foliated 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīsakalāgamācāryavaryaśrīkeśavasaṃvatsarātmagaṇeśasūriviracite grahalāghavāsiddhāṃtarahasye madhyamādhivagaraḥ prathamaḥ // (f. 3r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black lines.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Hindu mathematics
• Divination--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 4v-5r — Table, f. 4v