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Muhūrtarāja, 1812

Also known as Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha; मुहूर्तराज, १८१२

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  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: Sanskrit
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source

Manuscript is a collection of astrological inquiries (praśna) that function as a treatise about divining the future. There is a table with numbers and abbreviations (f. 7r).

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology and Divination and oracles.

  • Astrology

    Retained metadata contains “astrological” in the description and “Astrology” in the subject metadata.

    • astrological· in description
    • Astrology· in subject
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Divination”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the subject metadata.

    • Divination· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • Divination· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 24 x 10 cm; 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper middle verso.; Colophon: iti muhūrtarājasamāptaḥ // saṃ[vat] 1869 (f. 9v).; Dated saṃvat 1869 (1812) (f. 9v).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī); Manuscript and text oriented in portrait rather than landscape format; the narrow top of each folio has six holes where stitching once held it together.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; table drawn with red lines (f. 7r).; Title from colophon (f. 9v); alternate title Śāstrapraśnavantīgrantha from incipit.; Written in 25-29 lines per leaf.

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Identifiers

Colenda
  • ark:/81431/p3w651

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Collection of Indic Manuscripts
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9969651103503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1885
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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colenda:81431-p3w651
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