Śīghrabodha, 1825.
शीघ्रबोध

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Divination--India.

Hindu astronomy.

Astronomy--India.

Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Planets.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (47 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1770

Place of Publication:

1825.

१८२५.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise used for consultation and study and is an astrological text used by a priest or householder to divine future events that will affect specific details of a person's life (pañjika or astrological almanac); contains discussions of planetary movements and other themes.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 47r).

Written in 8 lines per leaf.

47 leaves foliated 1-47, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīkāśināthabhaṭṭācāryaviractie śīghrabodhahoḍācakracaturthaprakaraṇaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ samāptam // (f. 47r).

Dated saṃvat 1882 (1825) (f. 47r).

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 4964 (UP 1770).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1770.

OCLC:

938682845