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Tithinirṇaya, 1753.
तिथिनिर्णय
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1641
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Dharma.
- India.
- Dharma--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Mathematics--India--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa Karva (f. 32r).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (32 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1641
- Place of Publication:
- 1753.
- १७५३.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Son of Lakṣmīdhara (f. 32r).
- Summary:
- Treatise on Hindu law (dharma) regarding Hindu astronomy (jyotiṣa) and mathematics, examining and considering the nature of a day (tithi) and how it should be calculated within broader cosmological systems, and rites and ceremonies.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 32r).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 32 leaves foliated [1], 2-32, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrī padāvākyapramāṇajaśrīlakṣṃīdharasūreḥ sūtunāthadojidIkṣitena viractiatithinirmivaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 32r).
- Dated saṃvat 1810 (1753) (f. 32r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black 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 3102 (UP 1641).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1641.
- OCLC:
- 931704754
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