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Hastarekhāvicāraṇa, circa 1700-1850.
हस्तरेखाविचारण
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1904, Mapcase drawer 139
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Palmistry.
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Palmistry--India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- diagrams
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 32 x 41 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1904
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a treatise on Hindu palmistry on signs shown by the right hand, with a diagram in red of a large right hand divided into sections and in which are small drawings of objects labeled (with black ink) in Hindi and Sanskrit such as a chariot, swastika, palanquin, elephant, fish, planets and other astrological bodies and symbols.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 14 lines per leaf.
- 1 leaf.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; borders 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 1904 (UP 5254).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1904.
- OCLC:
- 948605194
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