Details

Subjects:

Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Medicine -- India.
Medicine.
India.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Prescriptions.
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for reference and consultation and is a kind of Tantric medical treatise and manual on healing and treating various medical conditions through traditional and non-traditional methods.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 53r).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
52 leaves foliated 1-11, 13-53, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnāthaviracite rasaratne sādhakānāṃrasasya siddhikaraṇaṃ nāmadvādaśopadeśaḥ śubhaḥ // (f. 53r).
Dated śaka 1793 (1881) (f. 53r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; folios treated with yellow turmeric powder; diagrams with words (f. 8v-9r).

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 5316 (UP 761).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 761

OCLC:

880979605