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Koṣṭhakā, circa 1700-1850.
कोष्ठका
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1898
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- tables (documents)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1898
- Other Title:
- Gaṇitagrantha
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Chart of astrological considerations of future results (such as debt, gifts, good or bad omens) as determined by the alignment of planets, the moon or other astrological bodies at a given time of year. Likely accompanied an astrological treatise explaining the use of the tables.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Gaṇitagrantha supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; tables 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 4815 (UP 1898).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1898.
- OCLC:
- 948604792
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