Kalpalatā, circa 1700-1850.
कल्पलता

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Somadaivajña (Son of Rudrabhaṭṭa)

Contributor:

Veṅkaṭapāṭhaka, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Divination--India.

Genre:

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1896

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological treatise dealing with signs associated with various planets, stations (nakṣatra) through which the moon passes, and more. Possible a commentary related to a work by Jaimini. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 28v).

Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.

12 leaves foliated 17-28, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrījalagrāmakāsirudrabhaṭṭātmajasomadaivajñaviracitākalpalatāsamāptā // (f. 28v).

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.

Scribe is Veṅkaṭapāṭhaka, who lived in Naḍasipur, possibly in Karnatika (f. 28v).

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 4795 (UP 1896).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1896.

OCLC:

948603896