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Praśnatantra, 1751.
प्रश्नतन्त्र
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1850
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Nīlakaṇṭha, active 16th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Tantrism.
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India--Early works to 1800.
- Tantrism--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 18 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1850
- Place of Publication:
- 1751.
- १७५१.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological treatise associated with Tantra and used for divining the future.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1v).
- Written in 17-19 lines per leaf.
- 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
- Dated śaka 1673 (1751) (f. 13r).
- 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 on the opening folios.
- 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 5138 (UP 1850).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1850.
- OCLC:
- 945972466
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