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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AYURVEDIC MANUSCRIPTS
18 G-1425
अश्वचिकित्सा
Ašvacikitsā by Nakula Substance : Country-made paper. Size : 22 X 13.5 cms. Folios: 42 (Pagination on both sides of the follos). Lines: 2-9. Let ters: 17. Script: Nāgari. Condition : Fresh handwriting, first fifteen folios are divided from the middle. Extent: Complete (Excepting the verse no. 1 with 4 lines).
The MS. deals with the horses, their ailments and treatment. The work contains 18 chapters. The names of the chapters are mentioned in the verse no. 3. Though the MS. does not clearly mention the completion of the text itself, yet it appears to be complete without ommission of some verses here and there. This manuscript is similar to G-1426 and the texts are almost the same, although in this MS. we get more information than in G-1426. Colophon mentions the date as Samvat 1833 - A.D. 1776. Both the MS. G-1425 and G-1426 begins with the text 'जयति स पाण्डवनाथो' etc. as mangala verse, but the printed texts show that this is not the first one, rather the second verse of the text. The 1st verse in the printed texts runs thus :
येन ज्ञानवता हिमालयतरुच्छायासु विक्रीड़ितम् । यः स्नातो हिमपुष्पवातशिशिरे गङ्गाजले पावने ॥ रेमे यस्तु तुरङ्गयूथजनितैनानाविधेहेषितः ।
पायातः स तुरङ्गघोषतनयः श्रीशालिहोत्रो मुनिः । Beginning :
श्रीगणेशाय नमः । . जयति स पांडवनायो धर्मनिधानो युधिष्ठिरोनृपतिः । अभीमार्जुनसहदेवास्तदनुच (जाश) ये वाजिशासतत्त्वज्ञाः ॥१॥ दृष्टा सम्यक्नकुलो जानं सर्व(ब)' शालिहोत्रीयम् । बूते शास्त्रार्थमन्यछा(शा)सं कृत्वा समासेन ॥२॥ प्रयो(नो) जातिवर्णमावतई (द)ता लक्ष बेगो (गा) वाहनं धातुरनम् ।