A 46-8 Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 46/8
Title: Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 57.5 x 5.5 cm x 67 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Āyurveda
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1697
Remarks:
Reel No. A 46-8
Inventory No. 4578
Title Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
Author Vāgbhaṭa
Subject Āyurveda
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, slightly damaged
Size 57.5 x 5.5 cm
Binding Hole 2
Folios 67
Lines per Folio 6–8
Foliation letters and figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1697
Manuscript Features
The extant folios cover the text from the beginning up to the fifth adhyāya of the cikitsāsthāna. Fol. 67 is damaged in the lower right-hand margin. Exposure 2 shows the recto of fol.1, on which a modern hand has written the following in modern Nagari characters: aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā saṃghaguptasya [[putravāgbhaṭa]]kṛtau.
Exposures 72–73 show a wooden cover leaf.
There is a short description of this MS in BSP vol. V p. 13.
Excerpts
Beginning
++ ⁅na⁆maḥ sarvvajñāya ||
rāgādirogān satatānusaktān aśeṣakāyaprasṛtān aśeṣān |
otsukya(!)mohāratidā(n) jaghāna yo pūrvvvedyāya (!) namo stu tasmai ||
athāta āyuskāmīyam adhyāyam vyākhyāsyāmaḥ || iti ha smāhur ātreyādayo maharṣayaḥ ||
āyus kāmayamānena dhamā(!)rthasukhasādhanaṃ |
āyurvedopadeśeṣu vidheyaḥ || ⁅pa⁆ramādaraḥ
brahmā smṛtvāyuṣo vedam prajāpatim ajigrahat ||
sau (!) śvinau tau sahasrākṣaṃ | so triputrādikān munīna (!) |
te gnivesādikān se (!) tu pṛthakā (!) tantrā(ṇ)i tenire
tebhyo tiviprakīrṇṇebhyaḥ || prāyaḥ | sārataroccayaḥ |
kriyate ṣṭāṅgahṛdayan nātisaṃkṣipti(!)vistaraṃ |
kāy⟪o⟫abālagrahoṅgā(!)ṅgaśalyadaṃṣṭrājarāvṛṣā(ḥ) ||
aṣṭāv aṅgāni tasyāhuś cikitsā yeṣu ṣaśritāḥ (!)
vāyu[[ḥ]] pitta (!) kaphaś sveti (!) trayo doṣāḥ samāsata[[ḥ]] ||
pratyekan te ○ tridhā vṛddhikṣayasāmā vi(bhe)dataḥ |
utakṛṣṭanadhyātalpatayā<ref>Probably for utkṛṣṭamadhyālpatayā, cf. A 64/7.</ref> (!) tridhā vṛddhikṣayāv api ||<ref>This verse does not appear in the editions.</ref>
vikṛtāvikṛtā ○ deha (!) ghnanti te varttayanti ca ||
te vyāpinau (!) pi hṛnnābhyor adhau(!)madhyorddha(!)śaṃsrayāḥ |
(fol. 1v1–3)
End
jīrṇṇeṣu teṣu yeṣāṃ [..] cāṅgerītakradāḍimaiḥ ||
pāṭhābilvayavanīnāñ cūrṇṇan tekreṇa (!) vā ⁅pi⁆pibet (!) |<ref>This verse, as well as the following hemistich, does not appear in the editions.</ref>
surayā vā plutān pāṭhāṃ sa nāgaradurālabhāṃ ||
purīṣaṃ yannato (!) rakṣec chuṣya○to rājayakṣmiṇiḥ (!) ||<ref>Cf. Cikitsāsthāna 5.73cd ff.</ref>
sarvadhātukṣayārttasya balan tasya hi viḍbalaṃ |
mānsam evāśṛto yuktyā mā○dhvīkam (!) pibato nu ca ||
avidhāritavegasya yakṣmā na ⁅labhate ntaraṃ |⁆
++++++++ +kam ariṣṭā (!) śīdhumānsavān ||
yathārham anupānārtham piben mānsāni bhakṣayan ||
śrotovibaṃdhamokṣārtham bulauja(!)puṣṭaye ca tat ||
snehakṣīrāmbukoṣṭheṣu svabhyaktam avagāhayet |
utīrṇṇa (!) miśrakasnehair bhūyo bhyaktaṃ sukhaiḥ karaiḥ ||
mṛdnī⁅yāt su⁆++++ ++++++++
+vanta (!) śatavīryañ (!) ca vikasāṃ sapunarṇṇavān |
aśvagandhām apāmārga (!) tarkārī (!) madhukam balā (!) |
vidārī sūrṣapāṃ (!) kuṣṭhan taṇḍulān atasīphalaṃ |
māṣān tilāṃś ca kiṇvañ ca sarvvam ekatra cūrṇṇayet |
yavacūrṇṇan triguṇitan dadhnā yuktaṃ samākṣikaṃ |
e⁅ta⁆///
(fol. 67r5–7)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 46/8
Date of Filming 18-10-1970
Exposures 74
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks Fols. 18v–19r and 41v–42r have been micro-filmed twice.
Catalogued by OH
Date 20-09-2007
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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