Details

Subjects:

Alchemy.
Mercury.
India.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Mercury -- India.
Alchemy -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for reference and consultation for alchemical and medical remedies, such as the use of mercury.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: atha hiṃgulasya nāmalakṣaṇaguṇītpatiśodhanāni // (f. 1r).
Colophon: iti saṃ[vat] 1820 āsurī 8 (f. 10v).
Dated saṃvat 1820 (1763) (f. 10v).
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 5347 (UP 791).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 791

OCLC:

881287309