Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, reference, and consultation and is a medical treatise and manual on alchemy for the treatment of various medical conditions from a Tantric perspective. Manuscript also contains a full commentary running parallel above and below the main text; beginning of text missing (begins on verse 6) despite starting on folio 1.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 85v); title of commentary, Rasaratnākarabhāṣā, from commentary colophon (85v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
83 leaves foliated 1-30, 32-83, 85, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti ra[saratnākara] samāptaṃ // 28 // (f. 85v).
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 red and black lines.

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 5299 (UP 763).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 763

Contains:

Rasaratnākarabhāṣā.

OCLC:

880980707