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

Title

Rasaratna
रसरत्न

Authors

• Śrīnātha

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 761
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962195613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880979604
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6219561

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for reference and consultation and is a kind of Tantric medical treatise and manual on healing and treating various medical conditions through traditional and non-traditional methods.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 53r).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 52 leaves foliated 1-11, 13-53, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1793 (1881) (f. 53r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; folios treated with yellow turmeric powder; diagrams with words (f. 8v-9r).
   

Extent

1 item (52 leaves) : 13 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīnāthaviracite rasaratne sādhakānāṃrasasya siddhikaraṇaṃ nāmadvādaśopadeśaḥ śubhaḥ // (f. 53r).

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Medicine--India
• Tantrism

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 7v-8r — Two small diagrams, f. 8r
• fol. 8v-9r — Numerous small diagrams, f. 8v
• fol. 8v-9r — Two small diagrams, f. 9r