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Title

Viṣanidāna
विषनिदान

Authors

• Mādhavakara
• Vaidyavāca

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 784
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962295133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881832258
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6229513

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

1 item (240 leaves) : 12 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti mādhavaviracite viṣanidānam (f. 239r).

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Diseases--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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