Jyotiṣasaṃgraha, circa 1700-1850.
ज्योतिषसंग्रह]

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Divination.

India.

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Divination--India.

Yantras.

Genre:

treatises

tables (documents)

diagrams

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (29 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1906

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of short astrological texts, tables, yantras (sacred diagrams), and more, for personal use in making inquiries (praśna) into the future.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 32-36 lines per leaf.

29 leaves foliated 1-4, 6-8, 10-15, [16], 24, [25-27], 29-30, [31-39], upper left and lower right verso.

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; tables drawn with single and double red and black line.

Bound on left margin as a codex, likely to make it easier to carry.

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 4844 (UP 1906).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1906.

OCLC:

949265608