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Title

Other related names

• Viṣṇudatta, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960745093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865582349
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6074509

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Summary

Manuscript is a treatise on astrological aspects of Ayurvedic medicine and the interpretation and reading of astrological signs in the course of medical diagnosis and treatment. Manuscript contains a number of astronomical tables of numbers, symbols, and references to different planets and other heavenly bodies.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9r).
   
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1897 and śaka 1762 (1840) (f. 12r).
   
• Scribe is Viṣṇudatta (f. 12r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; tables drawn with black lines.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy
• Divination
• Medicine, Ayurvedic

Genres

• Treatises
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v-2r — Tables, f. 1v-2r
• fol. 6v-7r — Tables, f. 7r
• fol. 7v-8r — Tables, f. 7v-f. 8r
• fol. 9v-10r — Table, f. 9v
• fol. 10v-11r — Table, f. 10v