Details

Standardized Title:

Dhanvantarīnighaṇṭu

Subjects:

Medicine -- India.
Medicine.
India.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Medicinal plants -- India.
Medicinal plants.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and is a kind of manual and medical treatise on the use of medicinal plants. Drawing of a yogin in prayer on the cover of manuscript (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 139r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
139 leaves foliated 1-109, 109-118, 120-139, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīdhanvaṃtarikṛtanirghaṭau mālāyāṃrasavīryyavipākanānārthadravyakathanaṃ nāmāṣṭamovargaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 139r).
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 quadruple black line.

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 5323 (UP 758).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 758

OCLC:

880977591