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IO SAN 2345c

Record Id:
032-003720190
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 2345c
Title:
Ramalaśāstra
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
foll.13
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Sanskrit
Scripts:
Devanagari
Start Date:
1753
End Date:
1753
Date Range:
1753
Era:
CE
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Rāma
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IO SAN 2345c

Ramalaśāstra

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Title: Ramalaśāstra

Treatise on geomancy.

The author is the son of Rāma Rudra of the Bharadvāja family, and younger brother of Kṛiṣṇa.

For a fragment of the same, or a similar work (Ramalagrantha Yavanokta) see Aufrecht, Florentine p.109. Neither verse 3 nor the last verse (which ought to be on fol. 5r of this Ms.) of that fragment is fpund in our Ms., whilst verse 4 is here verse 7.

Author: Rāma
Incipit: atha ramalaśāstraṃ likhyate॥ vande tatyadayankajaṃ gaṇapateryadvīkṣya raktāmbujaṃ gaḍasthā bhramarāvalī madhudhiyā bhāti spṛśantī muhuḥ| mañjīradhvanidattacittajamahānproḍḍīya kiñcitpadān sañjūlapratiśabditaṃ vidadhatī sattāṇḍave kālikāṃ ॥१॥ f. 1v
Colophon: iti rāmaviracitaṃ ramalaśāstraṃ samāptaṃ|| saṃvat 1810 ā ॰ su॰ 1 ravau ॥ f. 13v
Explicit: iti ramalatantre praśnatantraṃ samāptaṃ॥ [ta]tvādbhāvādugāhakaṃ pañca saptamakhaṇḍakaṃ| mukhyabhāvaphalaṃ jñeyamuvāha balatoṣitaṃ॥ ॰॥ dṛṣṭvā yavanaśāstroktaṃ baddhaṃ jīrvāṇabhāṣayā ॥ f. 13v

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: foll.13
Dimensions (leaf): 25.4 × 13.3 cm.
Dimensions (written): 20 × 11 cm.

Collation

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 20

fol. 1v and 2r, 17 lines in a page. The rest 13-25 lines in a page.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1753

Provenance and Acquisition

Gaekwad

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Surrogates

Microfilm IOL Neg 1077

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