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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960788583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867641379
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078858

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Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual of astronomical tables for daily consultations regarding planetary alignment and movements affecting human life.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8-10 rows of each table per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal incipit: iti tithi koṣṭakaḥ na[kṣatra]ko[ṣṭhakā] [/] atha nakṣatrakoṣṭhakāḥ vā[rādi] prāraṃbhāḥ [hāraḥ] (f. 7r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical and horizontal lines of tables drawn with both single and double red lines.
   
• Outer wrapping of text has notes and titles of five other manuscripts that were once housed with this manuscript. These manuscripts are numbered "No. 47" through to "No. 51"; the last of which corresponds to this manuscript.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

• Tables (documents)
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1v-2r — Tables, f. 1v-2r
• fol. 2v-3r — Tables, f. 2v-3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Tables, f. 3v-4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Tables, f. 4v-5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Tables, f. 5v-6r
• fol. 6v-7r — Tables, f. 6v-7r
• fol. 7v-8r — Tables, f. 7v-8r
• fol. 8v-9r — Tables, f. 8v-9r
• fol. 9v-10r — Tables, f. 9v-10r
• fol. 10v-11r — Tables, f. 10v-11r
• fol. 11v-12r — Tables, f. 11v-12r
• fol. 12v-13r — Tables, f. 12v-13r
• fol. 13v-14r — Tables, f. 13v-14r
• fol. 14v-15r — Tables, f. 14v-15r
• fol. 15v-16r — Tables, f. 15v-16r
• fol. 16v — Table, f. 16v