Kāka-parīkṣā

The manuscript appears to be a composite astrological and omenological compendium containing materials related to Jyotiṣa, Śakuna-śāstra, and Praśna-vicāra. The opening verses emphasize the role of nāma-rāśi and janma-rāśi in determining auspicious and inauspicious outcomes in practical affairs such as marriage, travel, warfare, village matters, and royal service. The text includes sections on interrogational astrology (Caura-praśna), travel prognostication (Yātrā-vicāra), Aṣṭavarga calculations, shadow interpretation (Chāyā-vicāra), crow omens (Kāka-vicāra), jackal omens (Jambuka-vicāra), and Kāka-parīkṣā. The manuscript is likely a practical manual or collected notebook of astrological and divinatory traditions, reflecting the mixed scholarly and folk predictive culture widely preserved in Nepalese and Eastern Indian manuscript traditions. *Although the manuscript contains numerous sections devoted to various forms of vicāra (interpretative and divinatory doctrines), the Kāka-vicāra section appears to have been written by Dāka.