Details

Standardized Title:

Mādhavanidāna

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Named Mādhava in the colophon (f. 239r).

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation and is a kind of guide for understanding the causes and treatments of diseases; work is also known by the title Rogaviniścaya. Manuscript contains a commentary, the Mādhavanidānaṭīkā, by Vaidyavāca.

Notes:

Title colophon (f. 239r); title of second text Mādhavanidānaṭīkā from commentary colophon (f. 239r).
Written in 10-15 lines per leaf.
240 leaves foliated 1-117, [i], 118-239, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti mādhavaviracite viṣanidānam (f. 239r).
Dated saṃvat 1899 (1842) (f. 239r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Manuscript has a commentary running vertically above and below the main text.

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 5305 (UP 784).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 784

Contributor:

Vaidyavāca.

Contains:

Mādhavanidānaṭīkā.

OCLC:

881832259