Śīghrabodha, circa 1700-1850.
शीघ्रबोध

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Divination.

India.

Divination--India.

Hindu astronomy.

Hindu astrology.

Astronomy--India.

Agriculture--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Agriculture.

Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Planets.

Genre:

treatises

diagrams

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 686

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is an astrological text used by a priest or householder for the purpose of divining future events that will effect specific details of a person's life; contains discussions of planetary movements and agricultural themes, includes a diagram of a serpent with asterism within its body (f. 20v); also contains tables and charts containing Sanskrit syllables and numbers. Manuscript is incomplete and may have combined parts of two different manuscripts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23v).

Written in 7-13 lines per leaf.

13 leaves foliated 11-23, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīśīghrabodhaḥ samāptaḥ saṃpūrṇam // śubham // (f. 23v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and single line in some folios.

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 4963 (UP 686).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 686

OCLC:

864303866