Camatkāracintāmaṇi, 1688.
चमत्कारचिन्तामणि

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Divination--India.

Planets.

Planets--Aeronautics.

Planets--Age.

Planets--Core.

Planets--Density.

Planets--Mantles.

Planets--Mass.

Planets--Radiation.

Planets--Rotation.

Planets--Seasons.

Planets--Transits.

Planets--Wind erosion.

Planets--Winds.

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).

Gaṇeśa.

Genre:

treatises

diagrams

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 679

Place of Publication:

1688.

१६८८.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and consultation and is a kind of manual and astrological work on divination that gives detailed descriptions of the nine planets of the Hindu astrological system as well as their place within the astrological stations. With some diagrams and a drawing of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa taken from another, newer, manuscript and used to reinforce the front and back cover of this manuscript.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r).

Written in 1-13 lines per leaf.

13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīcamatkāraciṃtāmaṇinoktaṃ bhāvaphalaṃ // samāptaṃ // śubham astu // śubhaṃ bhūyāt // saṃvat 1745 bhādre māsi kṛṣṇe pakṣai pratipadāgunuvāsarānvitāyāṃ tithau likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ pāṭakakāśīrāma ātmapāṭrthaṃ // (f. 13r).

Dated saṃvat 1745 (1688) (f. 13r).

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 black 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 679 (UP 679).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 679

OCLC:

861370959