Varṣaviveka, circa 1700-1850
वर्षविवेक, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript used as a kind of manual and horoscope for predicting the future based on Hindu and especially early Vedic systems of astronomy. Manuscript is incomplete.
- Creator
- Nīlakaṇṭhabhaṭṭa, active 17th century
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Divination
- Astronomy
- Hindu astrology
- Hindu astronomy
- Astronomy -- India
- Divination -- India
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 25 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 18r).
- Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
- 14 leaves foliated 5-18, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmaddaivajñānaṃtasutanīlakaṃṭhaviracite varṣaphale varṣaviveke māsaphalādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // samāptaṃ cedraṃ varṣaphale varṣavivekākhyaṃ prakaraṇam // śubham astu // (f. 18r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse markers indicated in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 651
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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