Praśnatattva, 1840.
प्रश्नतत्त्व

Format:

• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Viṣṇudatta, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu astrology.
• Hindu astronomy.
• Divination.
• Medicine, Ayurvedic.

Genre:

• treatises
• tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 698

Place of Publication:

• 1840.
• १८४०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise on astrological aspects of Ayurvedic medicine and the interpretation and reading of astrological signs in the course of medical diagnosis and treatment. Manuscript contains a number of astronomical tables of numbers, symbols, and references to different planets and other heavenly bodies.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 9r).
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti cakrapāṇiviracite vibudhapadaprade praśnātattve vai // miśrapraśnādhyāya sulabha iha dvādaśaśvāgāt // samvat 1897 śāke 1762 sālamitiphālyana[?]di 4 roja 5 tad dine lohanī viṣṇudatena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ śubham // (f. 12r).
• Dated saṃvat 1897 and śaka 1762 (1840) (f. 12r).
• Scribe is Viṣṇudatta (f. 12r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; tables drawn with black lines.

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 4713 (UP 698).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 698

OCLC:

865582374