Details

Subjects:

Mercury.
India.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Medicine -- India.
Medicine.
Mercury -- India.
Pulse -- Measurement.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Veṇīdatta (f. 79r).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation by a physician or householder for the purpose of creating diagnosis and treatment; for instance, talking about the benefits and greatness of quicksilver or mercury (rasendra); feeling the vein or the pulse (nādīparīkṣā); and the like.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
79 leaves foliated 1-79, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnaḍiyādavāsināsopratakāśī[v]āsinādyeḍāvālajñāt[?]māṭākuropanāmakena śrīveṇīdattasūnunā śrīgoviṃdarāmaviracite rasasaṃgrahasiddhāṃte ekādaśo padaśaḥ samābhāvākhyanāma saṃvatsare pauṣasukla 14 śanivāsare saṃvat 1919 likhitaṃ premavastrabhena śubhaṃ (f. 79r).
Dated saṃvat 1919 (1862) (f. 79r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Scribe is Premavastrabha (f. 79r).

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 5294 (UP 683).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 683

Contributor:

Premavastrabha, scribe.

OCLC:

861758348