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Grahalāghava, 1859.
ग्रहलाघव
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1791
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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
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (24 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1791
- Other Title:
- Laghucintāmaṇi
- Place of Publication:
- 1859.
- १८५९.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Laghucintāmaṇi supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
- 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīsakalāgamācāryavaryaśrīkeśavasāṃvatsarātmajagaṇeśaviracite siddhāṃtarahasye grahalāghave upasaṃhādhikāro 'ṣṭā[?]daśaḥ // 18 // (f. 24r).
- Dated śaka 1781 (1859) (f. 24r).
- Scribe is Śivarāma Jośipañcyanadikara (f. 24r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- A single wooden board supports the manuscript.
- 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 4687 (UP 1791).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1791.
- OCLC:
- 942008911
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