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Praśnamāṇikya, circa 1700-1850.
प्रश्नमाणिक्य
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1884
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Caṇḍeśvara, active 14th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- tables (documents)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1884
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological treatise about inquiring (praśna) into the future, possibly by the astrologer Caṇḍeśvara (f. 2v). Has a table of the 27 nakṣastras (houses of the moon) with numbers (f. 2v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 13 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti praśnamāṇikye kāryāvadhijñānākhyaprakaraṇaṃ // (f. 4v).
- 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 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 5143 (UP 1884).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1884.
- OCLC:
- 947859408
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