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Bālabodhinī, between 1838 and 1878?
बालबोधिनी
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1796
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1796
- Place of Publication:
- between 1838 and 1878?
- १८३८-१८७८?
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological treatise, for the purpose of divination, regarding stations of the moon (nakṣatras), especially the one called Puṣya.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 5v).
- Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
- 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrībālabodhinīsaśrīrā samáptaṃ // (f. 5v).
- Dated saṃvat 1930 and śaka 1750 (?) (f. 5v); the dating in the manuscript is contradictory since the śaka and saṃvat years do not align. The dates given are equivalent to 1838 and 1878.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; written on blue European paper.
- 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 5145 (UP 1796).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1796.
- OCLC:
- 944198627
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