Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 708: Yantrabhedadarśana University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 708: Yantrabhedadarśana are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from incipit (f. 1r). Written in 8 rows per leaf. 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right recto and verso. Incipit: śrī gaṃ // yaṃtrabhedadarśanaṃ kramato yathā // (f. 1r). Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins and tables marked with double red line. Original outer wrapping lists the names of a number of other manuscripts possibly purchased along with this work. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 708 9960785043503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867636494 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078504 Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a kind of manual or guide book on making divinations and reading the alignment and conjunction of the planets within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; employed to make predictions. Consists primarily of small astronomical tables of numbers and letters with some descriptive content in the margins and between the tables. In Sanskrit Yantrabhedadarśana यन्त्रभेददर्शन

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 1 item (3 leaves) : 11 x 26 cm Table, f. 1r Tables, f. 1v-2r Tables, f. 2v-3r Hindu astronomy Hindu astrology Divination--India Tables (documents) Manuals (instructional materials) Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century