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

Title

Authors

• Nīlakaṅṭha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960784823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867635978
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078482

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a treatise on Hindu astrology that makes predictions during the year that affect human life, employing calculations based on planetary movements and employing a few astronomical tables drawn throughout the work.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 41r).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 41 leaves foliated 1-41, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1876 (f. 41r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; black lines mark the vertical margins on some folios.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2v-3r — Table, f. 3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Table, f. 3v
• fol. 5v-6r — Table, f. 5v