A 46-7 Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 46/7
Title: Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 57 x 5 cm x 164 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Āyurveda
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/185
Remarks:
Reel No. A 46-7
Inventory No. 4577
Title Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
Author Vāgbhaṭa
Subject Āyurveda
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged
Size 57.0 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 2
Folios 164
Lines per Folio 6-8
Foliation letters and figures in the middle of the left-hand margin and figures in the middle of the right-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 4/185
Manuscript Features
There are 164 folios altogether. Folio numbers 71 and 112 have been skipped by the scribe, the text running continuously. There are two folios numbered 96. The foliation of fol. 150 has been damaged, another folio numbered “150” is really fol. 160. Fol. 165, the foliation of which is equally damaged, comes between fols. 159 and 161. The actual order of folios is as follows: 1-70; 72-96; 96a; 97-111; 113-150; “150” = 160; 151-159; 156; 161-164.
Fols. 1-5, 7, 10-11, 143-148 and 165 are damaged. Exp. 2 shows a painted wooden cover leaf. On some folios the writing has been partly rubbed off.
There is a description of this MS in BSP vol. V p. 5 ff.
Excerpts
Beginning
⁅oṁ⁆ namaḥ sarvvajñāya ||
rāgādirogān satatānusasuktān aśeṣakāyaprasṛtān aśeṣān |
(o)○tsukyamohāratidān jaghā⁅na⁆ yo pūrvvavaidyāya namo stu tasmai ||
athāta āyuskāmīyam adhyāyam vyākhyāsyāmaḥ || iti ha smāhur ātreyādayo maharṣayaḥ ||
āyus kāmayamānena ⁅dha⁆+rthasukhasādhanaṃ |
āyurvedopadeśeṣu vidheyaḥ paramādaraḥ ||
brahmā smṛtvāyuṣo vedam prajāpatim ajigrahat |
so śvinau tau sahasrā○kṣaṃ so triputrādikān munīn ||
te gnivesādikāns te tu pṛthak tantrāṇi tenire |
tebhyo tiviprakīrṇṇebhyaḥ prāyaḥ sārataroccayaḥ ||
kriyate ṣṭāṅgahṛdayan nātisaṃkṣiptavistaraṃ |
kāyo bālagrahorddhāṃga(!)śalyadaṃṣṭrājarāvṛṣāḥ ||
aṣṭāv aṅgāni tasyāhuś c⟪a⟫[[i]]kitsā yeṣu saṃśritāḥ |
vāyu⁅ḥ⁆ pittaṅ kaphaś ceti trayo doṣāḥ samā○sataḥ ||
pratyekan te tridhā vṛddhikṣayasābhyo (!) vibhedataḥ |
u(t)kṛṣṭamadhyālpatayā tridhā vṛddhikṣayāv api ||<ref>This verse does not appear in the editions.</ref>
vikṛtā○vikṛtā deha (!) ghnanti te varttayanti ca |
te vyāpino hi hṛnnābhyor adhomadhyorddha(!)saṃśrayāḥ ||
(fol. 1v1-3)
End
piṣṭasvedanamarujaiḥ pūrṇṇam bhallātakair vijarjjaritaiḥ
bhūminikhānte (!) kumbhe pratiṣṭhitaṃ kṛṣṇa+++<ref>Cf. Uttarasthāna 39.72 ff.</ref>
+++++ +++ ++ ++ +++++ +++
+ ++so yaś cyavate hṇīyāt (!) tā○n (!) di⁅ne⁆ +⁅smin⁆n
amum upayujya svarasam madhvaṣṭabhāgikaṃ dviguṇasarppiḥ |
pūrvvavidhiyantritātmā prāpnoti guṇā (!) śa (!) ○ tān eva
puṣṭāni pākena pari(cyu)tāni bhallātakānyāḍhakasaṃmitāni |
ghṛṣṭeṣṭakā(!)cūrṇṇakaṇair ja⁅lena⁆ +++ +++ + ++++
++++ +++ ++++ ++++dhṛtagālitasītaṃ | ○
⁅ta⁆drasaṃ urnar api śrapayet (!) kṣīrakumbhasahitaṃ caraṇasthaṃ |
sarppiḥ pa(kva)n tatra tulyapramāṇaṃ
yuñjāt (!) seccha (!) śa⁅rka⁆○rāyā rajo⁅bhiḥ |
ekībhūtan ta⁆ṃ khajakṣobhanena
sthāpya⁅n dhā⁆nye saptarātraṃ ⁅sugupta⁆m |
tam amṛta⁅ra⁆///
(exp. 166 top = fol. 165v-4-6)
Sub-colophon
iti vaidyaprati(!)saṃghaguptasya sūnor vābhaṭṭasya (!) kṛtāv aṣṭā○ṅgasaṃhitāyāṅ kalpasthāne pañcaman samāptam || anaṣṭu(!)cchandasā ślokaśatatrayaḥ || ||
(fol. 111v5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 46/7
Date of Filming 18-10-1970
Exposures 172
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks The following folios have been micro-filmed twice: 15v-16r; 89v-90r; 159v; 163v. Some exposures are slightly out of focus.
Catalogued by OH
Date 21-09-2007
Bibliography
- The Aṣtāngahṛidaya: a compendium of the Ayurvedic system composed by Vāgbhaṭa. Ed. B. H. P. Vaidya. 6th ed. Bombay 1939.
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