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Spaṣṭakālabīja, 1733.
स्पष्टकालबीज
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- 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
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