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Muhūrtarāja, 1812.
मुहूर्तराज
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1885
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- tables (documents)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 24 x 10 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1885
- Other Title:
- Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha
- Place of Publication:
- 1812.
- १८१२.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a collection of astrological inquiries (praśna) that function as a treatise about divining the future. There is a table with numbers and abbreviations (f. 7r).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 9v); alternate title Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha from incipit.
- Written in 25-29 lines per leaf.
- 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper middle verso.
- Colophon: iti muhūrtarājasamāptaḥ // saṃ[vat] 1869 (f. 9v).
- Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (f. 9v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; table drawn with red lines (f. 7r).
- Manuscript and text oriented in portrait rather than landscape format; the narrow top of each folio has six holes where stitching once held it together.
- 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 4852, 5149 (UP 1885).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1885.
- OCLC:
- 947843053
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