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Rasendracūḍāmaṇi. DivyauṣadhIlakṣaṇa, circa 1700-1850.
रसेन्द्रचूडामणि. डिव्यौषधीलक्षण,
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Somadeva, 1934-
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Mercury.
- India.
- Medicine, Ayurvedic--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Medicine, Ayurvedic.
- Mercury--India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- prescriptions
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 27 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 789
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- This manuscript is a section of the work named Crown jewel (cūḍāmaṇi) of the king of fluids (rasendra), and is used for consultation and reference about various medicinal elixirs, their composition and application. This section concerns the characteristics of divine herbs and medicines.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti somadevaviracito raseṃdracūḍāmaṇau divyauṣadhīlakṣaṇādhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 4v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 5319 (UP 789).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 789
- OCLC:
- 881287268
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