Details

Subjects:

Diarrhea.
Fever.
India.
Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Fever -- India.
Diarrhea -- India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and reference and is a treatise and guidebook for the application of Ayurvedic (Hindu medicine) treatments of various illnesses such as fever and diarrhea, along with prescriptions for various drugs and medical elixirs. A commentary by Rudrabhaṭṭa runs parallel, above and below the main text. The father of Rudrabhaṭṭa is Koṇeribhaṭṭa (f. 30v). The manuscript contains the first five chapters of the text and its commentary.

Notes:

Title from colophon. (f. 29v); the title of commentary, Vaidyajīvanarṭīkā, from commentary colophon (f. 30v).
Written in 10-15 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti divākarasūnuloliṃbarājaviracite vaidyajīvane paṃcamovilāsaḥ // // 5 // (f. 29v).
Commentary colophon: iti śrīkoṇeribhaṭṭasutarudrabhaṭṭaviracitāyāṃ vaidyajīvanarṭīkāyāṃ paṃcamollāsaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 30r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some folios treated with yellow 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 5308 (UP 797).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 797

Contains:

Rudrabhaṭṭa (Son of Koṇeribhaṭṭa)
Vaidyajīvanarṭīkā.

OCLC:

881327677