Details

Subjects:

Fever.
Alchemy.
India.
Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Alchemy -- India.
Medicinal plants -- India.
Medicinal plants.
Fever -- India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation and reference and is a Hindu medical treatise on fluids (rasas) in the creation of alchemical elixirs using, plants, and other substances for the purpose of healing sicknesses such as fever. Manuscript is incomplete and lacks a beginning and an ending.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 31-36, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: jājī ajamodāvajyeṣṭīmadhusasaiṃ dhavaṃ // (f. 31r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and significant 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 5330 (UP 796).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 796

OCLC:

881327609