Details

Subjects:

Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Hindi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Hindi language.

Form/Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Treatises.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Hindi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for study and consultation and is a medical treatise on the ingredients and preparation of various medications, along with a Hindi glossary written in red above the main text.

Notes:

Title from purchase wrapper.
Written in 6-11 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.

Penn Provenance:

Someone named Varadamūrti Prasan is honored at the beginning of the text and may be the person who commissoned the work or was even the author of the work.

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 5328 (UP 785).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 785

Contributor:

Varadamūrti Prasan, associated name.

OCLC:

881287172