Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, 1868.
मुहूर्तचिन्तामणि

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Rāma Daivajña, active 17th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Divination--India.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (63 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1794

Place of Publication:

1868.

१८६८.

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 about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 63r).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

63 leaves foliated 1-63, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīdaivajñānaṃtasutarāmaviracitāyāṃmuhūrtāciṃtāmaṇaugṛhapraneśaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 63r).

Dated saṃvat 1925 śaka 1790 (1868) (f. 63r).

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.

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 5043 (UP 1794).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1794.

OCLC:

942017612