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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960785013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867636358
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078501

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Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a kind of manual or guide book on making divinations and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; employed to make predictions about the upcoming year. Consists entirely of astronomical tables of numbers and letters with some descriptive content given in the far left column of each table.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 6-8 rows for each table, per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: tithikoṣṭhāsamāptāḥ (f. 5v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases in red throughout; vertical margins and table divisions marked with double red line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu astrology
• Divination--India

Genres

• 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 — Table, f. 12v