Aṣṭakavargasṛṣṭi, circa 1700-1850.
अष्टकवर्गसृष्टि

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Hindu mathematics.

Divination--India.

Genre:

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 692

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a kind of manual and treatise on astronomy and mathematics. An astronomical table appears on the front and back of the final folio (f. 3) of the manuscript.

Notes:

Title from note at the end of manuscript in second scribal hand (f. 3v).

Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1, [2-3], upper left and lower right verso.

Explicit: kaṣṭam arthakṣayaḥ kleśaḥ samapārthasutāgamaḥ // dhanāptiḥ sukham iṣṭāptir iti rekhāphale kramāt // 21 // (f. 2r).

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 4806 (UP 692).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 692

OCLC:

865582060