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Saṃgrahapraśnavicāra, circa 1700-1850.
संग्रहप्रश्नविचार
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1880
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Diseases--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1880
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Collection of astrological predictions, with tables containing numbers and abbreviations; drawing of cosmic serpent (f. i recto) employed for divining diseases (roga).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 12v).
- Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
- 13 leaves foliated 1, [i], 2-12, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti jyotiṣaprakaraṇe saṃgrahaḥ praśnāvicāraḥ śrīrastu // (f. 12v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables drawn 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 5274 (UP 1880).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1880.
- OCLC:
- 947857905
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