Śīghrabodha, 1767; शीघ्रबोध,१७६७

Name:

Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1767

Description:

Astrological work associated with health; a series of figure drawings are embedded in tables with numbers and letters and aligned with points of bodily power or cakras; these cakras are aligned with different planets for the purpose of predicting the future of one's health.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Chakras; Medicine; Divination; Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800; Hindu astrology; Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Hindu astronomy; Divination -- India -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- India -- Early works to 1800; Chakras -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (38 leaves) : paper; 11 x 26 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 38v).; Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.; 38 leaves foliated 1-38, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīkāśināthakṛtau śīghravodhe saṃpūrṇaṃ śubham astu saṃvat 1823 (f. 38v).; Dated saṃvat 1823 (1767) (f. 38v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1804

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts