Rājāvalī, 1851
राजावली, १८५१
- Description
- Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a manual and treatise on divination and reading the signs of planetary movement within the context of Hindu astrology and astronomy; makes predictions (divination) about the upcoming year. Contains two astronomical tables of letters and numbers. Manuscript lacks a beginning.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- tables (documents)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1851
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Divination
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu astrology
- Hindu astronomy
- Divination -- India
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 32 cm
- Notes
- Title from end title page (f. 5v).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left verso.
- Dated saṃvat 1908 (1851) (f. 5r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gt5fj6z
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1783
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Candī Datta (f. 5v) and by Baganbhaṭṭa Okar, written in a second scribal hand (f. 5r).
- Datta, Candī, former owner.
- Okar, Baganbhaṭṭa, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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