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Jyotiṣa, circa 1700-1850.
ज्योतिष
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 648
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- Astronomy.
- India.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Astronomy--India.
- Yugas.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 19 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 648
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used as a kind of guide book or manual for early Hindu and especially Vedic astronomy and is part of the supplemental literature to the Vedas or the Vedāṅga literature; makes reference to Vedic ritual and an unusual reference to a system of 5 year yugas (cosmic ages).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti jyotiṣaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ (f. 4v).
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4841 (UP 648).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 648
- OCLC:
- 861291507
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