Rājāvalī, 1851.
राजावली

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Datta, Candī, former owner.

Okar, Baganbhaṭṭa, former owner.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Divination--India.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Candī Datta (f. 5v) and by Baganbhaṭṭa Okar, written in a second scribal hand (f. 5r).

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 32 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1783

Place of Publication:

1851.

१८५१.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions (divination) about the upcoming year. Contains two astronomical tables of letters and numbers. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 5v).

Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left verso.

Dated saṃvat 1908 (1851) (f. 5r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4899 (UP 1783).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1783.

OCLC:

941020791