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Title

Yogaranākara
योगरत्नाकर

Authors

• Vīreśvarānanda

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 769
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9953146803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768130746
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5314680

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Compendium of Indian medical knowledge up until the 17th century including details of medical drugs, as well as diagnoses and treatments for many medical conditions including a variety of fevers, loss of appetite and indigestion, piles, bronchitis, hiccups, epilepsy, diabetes, etc. There is intermittent commentary (ṭīkā) at various points throughout the text.

Notes

• Title from margin abbreviation throughout, upper left verso.
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 532 leaves foliated 1-59, upper left and lower right verso; 60-117, upper left verso; 118-267, upper left and lower right verso; 268-532, upper left verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1863 (1806) (f. 532v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line; the final folio (f. 532) and colophon are badly damaged.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (532 leaves) : 13 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti vājā[?????]prakarṇasamāptaṃ saṃvat 1863 matīkātikasudīvādarśa[??]liṣitaṃhīrātnāte[??] samāptaṃ // rāmarāmarāmaṃ (f. 532v).

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Ayurvedic

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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