Narapatijayacaryā, circa 1700-1850.
नरपतिजयचर्या

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Narapati, active 12th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Animals--Symbolic aspects.

Animals.

Divination--India.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1862

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and consultation and is an astrological divination text on subjects including divisions of time, astrological bodies, and reading of animal signs. Manuscript is incomplete and only contains the first two folios.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviation (f. 2v).

Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red 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 5227 (UP 1862).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1862.

OCLC:

946537195