Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Nirghaṭi
निर्घटि

Authors

• Dhanvantarī (Founder of Ayurveda)

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 758
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962195583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880977421
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6219558

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and is a kind of manual and medical treatise on the use of medicinal plants. Drawing of a yogin in prayer on the cover of manuscript (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 139r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 139 leaves foliated 1-109, 109-118, 120-139, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

Extent

1 item (139 leaves) : 12 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīdhanvaṃtarikṛtanirghaṭau mālāyāṃrasavīryyavipākanānārthadravyakathanaṃ nāmāṣṭamovargaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 139r).

Subjects topical

• Medicine--India
• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Medicinal plants--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illustration, f. 1r