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Grahalāghava, circa 1700-1850.
ग्रहलाघव
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1785
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Gaṇeśadaivajña, active 1520-1554.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- tables (documents)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 34 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1785
- Other Title:
- Laghucintāmaṇi
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Hindu astronomy and mathematics and deals with the prediction and divination of events that affect the course of human life. A few astrological tables are drawn in the manuscript, some with numbers and letters and others left blank. Manuscript lacks an ending.
- Notes:
- Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Laghucintāmaṇi supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and tables in red. Manuscript is treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect it from insect damage.
- Non-Latin script record
- 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 4686 (UP 1785).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1785.
- OCLC:
- 941981400
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