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MS. Sansk. b. 35

MSS. Sansk. b.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Vāgbhaṭa’s Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya (IV-VI), &c., 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

1. [fols. i-ix]

Some fragments dealing with medicine.

2. [fols. 1-174v]

the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā, by Bāhaṭa, the son of Somghagupto, including the Cikitsita, Kalpa, and Uttara sthānas. The last sthāna is incomplete, breaking off at the beginning of adhyāya 40.

Incipit: oṃ athāto jvaracikitsitaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ | iti ha smāhur Ātreyādayo maharṣayaḥ | āmāśayastho hatvāgniṃ sāmo mārgān pidhāya yat | vidadhāti jvaraṃ doṣaṃs tasmāt kurvīta laṃghanaṃ | &c. F. 9: cikitsite prathamo ’dhyāyaḥ ǁ
Explicit: ity uttare ekonacatvāriṃśo ‘dhyāyaḥ ǁ ǁ athāto vājīkaraṇādhyāyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ ǁ iti harṣayaḥ ǁ vājikaraṇam anvichet satataṃ viṣayī pumān | … vājī vātibalo yena yādapratihatoṃganāḥ | bhavaty atipriya |

the Rasanighaṇṭu, and other medical treatises, chiefly, it seems, in Telugu.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Palm-leaves, held together by two boards, with a string going through one hole, and a wooden pin through the other.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Condition

parts of ff. 1, 49, 67, 184 are broken off, ff. i, iv, 19, 50, 56–61, 64, 85–88, 111, 177, 186, 189–191, 211, 216–219 are slightly damaged, and ff. 44–60, 152–158, 165, 166, 172–185 are wormed.

Hand(s)

Telugu.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

apparently early, probably 17th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1600 (1–3), p. 316

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1600 (1–3), p. 316

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