Yogaranākara, 1806.
योगरत्नाकर

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Vīreśvarānanda, Swami

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Ayurvedic.

Genre:

treatises

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (532 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 769

Place of Publication:

1806.

१८०६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Compendium of Indian medical knowledge up until the 17th century including details of medical drugs, as well as diagnoses and treatments for many medical conditions including a variety of fevers, loss of appetite and indigestion, piles, bronchitis, hiccups, epilepsy, diabetes, etc. There is intermittent commentary (ṭīkā) at various points throughout the text.

Notes:

Title from margin abbreviation throughout, upper left verso.

Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.

532 leaves foliated 1-59, upper left and lower right verso; 60-117, upper left verso; 118-267, upper left and lower right verso; 268-532, upper left verso.

Colophon: iti vājā[?????]prakarṇasamāptaṃ saṃvat 1863 matīkātikasudīvādarśa[??]liṣitaṃhīrātnāte[??] samāptaṃ // rāmarāmarāmaṃ (f. 532v).

Dated saṃvat 1863 (1806) (f. 532v).

Mistakes covered over in white 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; the final folio (f. 532) and colophon are badly damaged.

Non-Latin script record.

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 5310 (UP 769).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 769

OCLC:

768130747