Grahalāghava

The manuscript contains the work Grahalāghava by Gaṇeśadaivajña (active 1520-1554) of Nandigrāma in Koṅkaṇa on the West-coast, Son of Keśava Daivajña and Lakṣmī. Paternal uncle and teacher of Nṛsiṁha. This text is an astronomical treatise which describes the method of computations of the positions of planets. Title is taken from the colophon (f. 12b). The manuscript is written in 9 lines per leaf. 10 leaves are foliated 1–10, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes are covered with yellow or blacked out. Some corrections and additions in the margins, vertical margins marked with triple red line, tables in double red lines. It is dated after 1822 based on the watermark according to the penn cataloguer.