Jātakābharaṇa, circa 1700-1850.
जातकाभरण

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Divination.

India.

Divination--India.

Hindu astronomy.

Hindu astrology.

Astronomy--India.

Genre:

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 26 x 11 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 688

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and consultation and is an astrological treatise related to the practice of divination by means of reading meaning into the movement of the various planets and the signs of the zodiac associated with them. Text contains tables containing numbers and Sanskrit characters, for understanding the movements of the sun and moon.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 10v).

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti jātakābharaṇe mūlādijananaphalaṃ // śiva // (f. 9v).

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 5118 (UP 688).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 688

OCLC:

864306685