This manuscript is a collection of Sanskrit texts on Hindu astrology, divination, and palmistry which might have been used by a working astrologer (jyotisha). Written in black Devanagari script with double red borders, it contains annotated diagrams of hands, astrological tables, and depictions of the zodiac signs, planets, and auspicious symbols.Astrology plays an important part in life cycle events in Hindu communities. The earliest known Sanskrit text in astrology is the Vedanga Jyotisha, which dates to the Vedic period of Indian history (c. 1500 BCE). A later genre of mathematical astronomical texts, the Siddhantas, were composed in the first millennium CE. This manuscript most likely collects several of such texts, transcribed and reinterpreted in a later period.
