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Title

Rasaratnākara
रसरत्नाकर

Authors

• Nityanātha

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 763
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962195643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880980705
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6219564

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, reference, and consultation and is a medical treatise and manual on alchemy for the treatment of various medical conditions from a Tantric perspective. Manuscript also contains a full commentary running parallel above and below the main text; beginning of text missing (begins on verse 6) despite starting on folio 1.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 85v); title of commentary, Rasaratnākarabhāṣā, from commentary colophon (85v).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 83 leaves foliated 1-30, 32-83, 85, 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 red and black lines.
   

Extent

1 item (83 leaves) : 16 x 34 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti ra[saratnākara] samāptaṃ // 28 // (f. 85v).

Subjects topical

• Tantrism
• Medicine, Ayurvedic
• Medicine--India

Genres

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

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