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• bibid: 9960015643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/402597197
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6001564

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Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation and contemplation and is translated as, the Purification of the principle or essential elements (tattva), and is employed for rites intending to purify perceived mental imbalances which are thought to be the root of physical infirmity; employed as part of broader medical treatment in Ayurvedic medicine as part of general concern for health and spiritual well being.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 194 lines total.
   
• 1 leaf [1r-1v].
   
• Begins (f. 1v): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // atha tattvaśodhatatrapaṇalikhyate // (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse divisions in purple throughout; vertical margins marked with double purple line.
   
• Written on three long folios glued together and folded accordion style, making a single long, scroll-sized manuscript with writing on both sides. The entire manuscript was torn completely through along the folds and is currently in seven parts. The beginning of the text starts about one third of the way down the length of the manuscript (if whole), leaving the first part of the paper entirely blank.
   
• Dated śaka 1797 (1875) (f. 1v).
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Purity, Ritual
• Healing--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Medicine--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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