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Manoramāmūla, 1775.
मनोरमामूल
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1903
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Gargācārya.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dice--Religious aspects.
- Hinduism.
- Divination.
- India.
- Hindu astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Divination--India--Early works to 1800.
- Dice--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Dice.
- Genre:
- treatises
- commentaries
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1903
- Other Title:
- Praśnamanoramā
- Place of Publication:
- 1775.
- १७७५.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Astrological treatise on making predictions with three dice. An unidentified commentary (f. 3r-6r) accompanies the main text.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Praśnamanoramā supplied by cataloger; title of commentary Manoramāmūlaṭīkā from abbreviations in margins.
- Scribe is Rāmacandra (f. 6r).
- Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
- 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
- Dated saṃvat 1832 (1775) (f. 6r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables marked with single 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 4976 (UP 1903).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1903.
- Contains:
- Manoramāmūlaṭīkā.
- OCLC:
- 949265537
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