Pallīpatanakārikā, circa 1700-1850.
पल्लीपतनकारिका

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Lizards.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Lizards--Symbolic aspects.

Animals--Symbolic aspects.

Animals.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 19 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1767

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological treatise and manual on prognostication for making predictions about someone's life based on patterns observing falling house-lizards (pallī). Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

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 5257 (UP 1767).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1767.

OCLC:

938031959