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Praśnajñānaviveka, circa 1700-1850.
प्रश्नज्ञानविवेक
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1883
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1883
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological treatise about how to inquire and gain knowledge about the future. Work contains three other short texts on related material (f. 2v).
- Notes:
- Title for manuscript from title for first work from colophon (f. 2r-2v); titles of additional works Prasavapraśna, Darśanapraśna, and Saṃyogākṣarayukti from colophons (f. 2v).
- Written in 12 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti praśnajñānavivekaḥ // (f. 2r-2v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked 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 5137, 5152, 5168, and 5144 (UP 1883).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1883.
- Contains:
- Prasavapraśna.
- Darśanapraśna.
- Saṃyogākṣarayukti.
- OCLC:
- 947858695
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