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

Title

Varṣatantra
वर्षतन्त्र

Authors

• Nīlakaṇṭha, active 16th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 712
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962063243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880360371
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6206324

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual used for consultation of Hindu astrological tables and signs of divination and is part of a sub-section of a larger astrological and mathematical work by Nīlakaṇṭha. Lacks the beginning.

Notes

• Title from title colophon (f. 57r).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 56 leaves foliated 2-57, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1864 (1806) (f. 57r).
   
• 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

1 item (56 leaves) : 10 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīkāśīnivāsaśrīdaivajñānaṃtasutanīlakaṃṭhaviracitaṃvarṣataṃtraṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 57r).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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