Details

Subjects:

Diseases -- Treatment.
Diseases.
India.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Diseases -- Treatment -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for study and consultation and is a guidebook and treatise on various medical disorders; includes, for instance, the treatment of digestive tract disorders, and many other conditions, diseases, and the like. Small chart, diagram, and notes at the front and back of manuscript (f. 1r and f. 31v).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāyanamaḥ // gurubhyonamaḥ ālasya bhramakaṃ pramoha[??]tāsarvāṃ (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.

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 5329 (UP 788).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 788

OCLC:

881238511