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Title

Kautukacintāmaṇi
कौतुकचिन्तामणि

Other related names

• Keśava (Son of Hastākṣaragaṇeśa), scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 738
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962105813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880443492
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6210581

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guide used for study, contemplation, and practice, being a medical treatise on cures and treatments (for instance, snake bites), along with other medical topics.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• Scribe is Keśava, son of Hastākṣaragaṇeśa (f. 81r).
   
• 82 leaves foliated 1-81, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some verse dividers indicated in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

1 item (82 leaves) : 12 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Medicine--India
• Snakebites--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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