Rājāvalī, circa 1700-1850.
राजावली

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Genre:

treatises

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (21 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1874

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological work outlining various benefits received at different times of year and during different years of a 60 year cycle. Date of śaka 1512 (1590) is given for the composition of the work (not scribal date) at the beginning of the work (f. 1v).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 10 lines per leaf.

21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti saṃkrāṃpraveśavāraphalaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 21r).

Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; horizontal margins marked with double red lines on first folio (f. 1v).

A single wooden board supporting the manuscript has drawings of faces and figures and overlapping lines of writing on it.

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 4901 (UP 1874).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1874.

OCLC:

947844622