Prastāraprabhākaragrantha, circa 1700-1850.
प्रस्तारप्रभाकरग्रन्थ

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Hindi

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu astrology.

Hindu astronomy.

Mountains--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Mountains.

Himalaya Mountains.

Genre:

treatises

tables (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 30 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2611

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Hindi and Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Astrological work in Hindi including several tables of calculations of predictions and planetary movements. Some tables arranged as a pyramid are meant to represent Mount Meru in the Himalayas.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).

Written in 10 lines per leaf.

8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: yai pura iti amṛtasaranagare śubhaṃ śuyataleṣakapāṭyo (f. 8v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 5844 (UP 2611).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2611.

OCLC:

971022869