Śivājñā, circa 1700-1850.
शिवाज्ञा

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Tantrism.

Divination--India.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 662

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological/tantric treatise connected to the theology of the Hindu deity Śiva and Śivā (female counterpart to Śiva); used for astrological predictions and for the purposes of divination. Contains two texts: the first is the Śivālikhita and the second is the Śivājñā.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r); section title Śivālikhita from internal colophon (f. 2v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śivājñāsaṃpūrṇā // (f. 4r).

Mistakes crossed out in black.

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 4915 (UP 662).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 662

Contains:

Śivālikhita.

OCLC:

861360369