Golādhyāya, circa 1700-1850.
गोलाध्याय

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bhāskarācārya, 1114-1185.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

diagrams

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (117 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1813

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a geometrical and astronomical treatise from the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi, on calculating the size of spheres and various geological formations. Considers the earth to be round. There are small diagrams with numbers written inside near the end of the manuscript. Manuscript lacks an ending and has confusing foliation with some leaves being foliated with two or three different numerical sequences.

Notes:

Title from incipit.

Written in 5-14 lines per leaf.

117 leaves foliated 1, 1-82, 78-86, 91-115, upper left and lower right verso.

Internal colophon: iti śrīsidhāṃtaśiromaṇivāsanāṃ bhāṣyomitākṣare golādhyāye ituvarṇanaṃ nāmādhyaya athapradhyāyovyakhyāyate // (f. 109v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4746 (UP 1813).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1813.

OCLC:

944519545