Spaṣṭakālabīja, 1733.
स्पष्टकालबीज

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800.
• Hindu astrology.
• Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800.
• Hindu astronomy.

Genre:

• manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 28 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1781

Other Title:

Spaṣṭajanmakālabīja

Place of Publication:

• 1733.
• १७३३.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an astrological manual related to the position of the planets at the time of birth.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title Spaṣṭajanmakālabīja derived from incipit (f. 1r).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti spaṣṭakālabījaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīrastu // (f. 2r).
• Dated śaka 1655 (1733) (f. 1r).
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 5175 (UP 1781).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1781.

OCLC:

940554126