Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, circa 1700-1850.
मुहूर्तचिन्तामणि

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Rāma Daivajña, active 17th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Divination--India.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (44 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 34 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1870

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions about the upcoming year related to various aspects of human life. There are tables of numbers and characters related to the planets throughout the manuscript.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.

44 leaves foliated 1-20, [i], 21-43, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti yātrāprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 43v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with six red lines.

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 5046 (UP 1870).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1870.

OCLC:

947842317