Details

Subjects:

Medicine, Ayurvedic.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for reference and consultation as a kind of manual for the creation of pharmaceutical elixirs and treatment of urinary infections, as well as other medical issues.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 17-19 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: athāsavādhikāraḥ // (f. 1v).
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. Some folios treated with turmeric powder.

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 5320 (UP 783).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 783

OCLC:

880983955