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Pāśakakevalī, circa 1700-1850.
पाशककेवली
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Garga.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dice--Religious aspects.
- Hinduism.
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Dice--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Dice.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1879
- Other Title:
- Pāśakakeralī
- Pāśakevalī
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological treatise on making predictions with dice.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate titles Pāśakakeralī and Pāśakevalī supplied by cataloger. List of numbers possibly for calculations on back cover (f. 11v). Manuscript is incomplete.
- Written in 8 lines per leaf.
- 6 leaves foliated 6-11, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīgargakṣaṣikṛtāpāśakakevalīsamāptaṃ śubham astu // (f.11r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 4973 (UP 1879).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1879.
- OCLC:
- 947857993
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