The Lamp of Prices (1831) - Page 2

⚠The main body of the manuscript is extremely faded or consists of bleed-through from another page, making it illegible. Only the archival notes in the top-right corner are transcribed.

No. 5045-1 The Lamp of Prices original: "अर्धदीपिका" (Ardhadīpikā); likely a variant title or spelling of "Arghadipakam," a text used for predicting the rise and fall of commodity prices through astrology. 155 leaves? original: "पत्री" (patrī); indicates the total folio count for this specific volume. Astronomer-Astrologer original: "ज्योतिरविद्" (Jyotirvid); refers to a practitioner of Jyotisha, the traditional Indian science of celestial observation and divination. Transcription original: "प्रतिलिपि" (Pratilipi); denotes that this manuscript is a hand-written copy of an earlier source text. --- No. 93-94 [Approximately twelve lines of text appear in the main body of the page, but they are either extremely faded due to age or consist of "ghosting"—the visual effect of ink bleeding through from the opposite side of the paper. This makes the original Sanskrit script illegible for transcription or translation.] ?