Rājāvalī, 1851; राजावली,१८५१

Contributor:

Datta, Candī (former owner); Okar, Baganbhaṭṭa (former owner)

Date:

1851

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.

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Candī Datta (f. 5v) and by Baganbhaṭṭa Okar, written in a second scribal hand (f. 5r).

Subject:

Divination; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hindu astrology; Hindu astronomy; Divination -- India

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Tables (documents); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper; 12 x 32 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

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)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts