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Title

Sarvārthacintāmaṇi
सर्वार्थचिन्तामणि

Authors

• Veṅkaṭeśa, Daivajña

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 653
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960428053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861295057
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6042805

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript an astrological work, title translated as Jewel of all things, is a comprehensive overview of astrological charts, and planetary movements, that seeks to determine outcomes that will positively or negatively effect people's lives and rites of passage (birth, marriage, death). Small graph on the title page written in a different hand.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 60r).
   
• Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 59 leaves foliated 1, 3-60, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1807 (1750) (f. 60r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

Extent

1 item (59 leaves) : 12 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: yādṛṣaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā // yadi śudram śruddhaṃ vāmamadoṣonavidyate // samāpta // śubham astu // saṃvat 1807 // (f. 60r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Divination--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — chart f. 1r