Kālacakra, circa 1700-1850.
कालचक्र

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astronomy.

Hindu astrology.

Divination--India.

Tantrism.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Parvati (Hindu deity).

Parvati.

Genre:

treatises

manuals (instructional materials)

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 695

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a narrative presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Pārvatī and Śiva that serves as a treatise and guide on Hindu astronomy from a Tantric perspective, correlating between the heavenly bodies and Tantric doctrine.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 14v).

Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.

14 leaves foliated 1-13, [14], upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti kālacakraṃ samāptaṃ // idaṃ truṭīpatraṃ ekādaśasthapatre niraṃkapṛṣṭe dvitīyapaṃktisthaṃ bodhyaṃ pa.11 paṃ.2 [//] (f. 14v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Final folio is written in a different hand.

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 4809 (UP 695).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 695

OCLC:

867635384