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Śīghrabodha, 1767.
शीघ्रबोध
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1804
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Chakras.
- Medicine.
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine--India--Early works to 1800.
- Chakras--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (38 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1804
- Place of Publication:
- 1767.
- १७६७.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological work associated with health; a series of figure drawings are embedded in tables with numbers and letters and aligned with points of bodily power or cakras; these cakras are aligned with different planets for the purpose of predicting the future of one's health.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 38v).
- Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
- 38 leaves foliated 1-38, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīkāśināthakṛtau śīghravodhe saṃpūrṇaṃ śubham astu saṃvat 1823 (f. 38v).
- Dated saṃvat 1823 (1767) (f. 38v).
- 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 black 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 4965 (UP 1804).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1804.
- OCLC:
- 944199403
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