Śīghrabodha, circa 1700-1850.
शीघ्रबोध

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya.

Contributor:

Rājarāma Madhumatya (Son of Gaṅgādhara), scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Divination--India.

Chakras.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

diagrams

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (34 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 8 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1828

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

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. There are tables and diagrams with numbers and characters.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 34v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

34 leaves foliated 1-33, [34], upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti maṃtrāraṃbhaḥ iti kāśināthayabhaṭṭācāryakṛtau śighrabodhe mūhartaprakaraṇasamāptaṃ graṃthasamāptaṃ (f. 34r).

Scribe is Rājarāma Madhumatya, son of Gaṅgādhara (f. 34r).

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. There is a decorative floral border on the front cover in red (f. 1r)

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 4966 (UP 1828).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1828.

OCLC:

945368603