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Hastarekhā, circa 1700-1850.
हस्तरेखा
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Palmistry.
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India.
- Palmistry--India.
- Genre:
- drawings (visual works)
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1905
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a small folded work, meant to be carried on someone's person for convenient consultation. It contains a diagram of a right hand with associated astrological symbols such as a bull, horse, elephant, sun, moon, swastika, chariot, and others.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- 1 leaf.
- 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 5255 (UP 1905).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1905.
- OCLC:
- 948609004
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