Jaiminisūtra, 1878; जैमिनिसूत्र,१८७८

Contributor:

Jaimini (attributed name)

Date:

1878

Description:

Manuscript is a Hindu astrological work employed to make predictions about events in human lives drawing on readings and calculations of the movements of planets and other heavenly bodies as they move into the various astrological houses (bhāvas). This text represents adhyāyas 1-2 of a larger work and attributed to the ancient author/sage named Jaimini.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Divination; Hindu astrology; Hindu astronomy; Divination -- India

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 14 x 26 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).; Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti jaiminisūtre dvitīyādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // śake 1800 (f. 4v).; Dated śaka 1800 (1878) (f. 4v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts