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Bṛhajjātaka. Adhyāya 1-18, 1777.
बृहज्जातक. अध्याय १-१८,
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1786
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Varāhamihira, 505-587.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (23 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 32 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1786
- Place of Publication:
- 1777.
- १७७७.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a Hindu astrological manual and treatise for understanding the significance of a person's birth and divining what the future holds for them.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 23v).
- Written in 13 lines per leaf.
- 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīāvaṃtikācārya śrīvarāhamiharaviracite bṛhajjātakopasaṃhārādhyāyaḥ 18 saṃvat 1834 māsa aṣāṭakṛṣṇapakṣanaumyā 9 (f. 23v).
- Dated saṃvat 1834 (1777) (f. 23v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 5062 (UP 1786).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1786.
- OCLC:
- 941957898
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