Līlāvatī, circa 1700-1850
लीलावती, १७००-१८५०

Description
Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a fragment, missing beginning and ending, of a treatise and an ancient textbook on mathematics as derived from planetary movements.
Creator
Bhāskarācārya, 1114-1185
Form
manuscripts (documents)
treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1700
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Mathematics
Hindu mathematics
Mathematics -- India
Hindu astrology
Hindu astronomy
Geographic Subject
India
Collection
Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 28 cm
Notes
Title from internal colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 3-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgaṇitapāṭayāṃ līlāvatyāṃ prakīraṇakāni samāptāni / (f. 8r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1909
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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