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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AYURVEDIC MANUSCRIPTS
and 2800 slokas (which appears absurd). The total number of Slokas found in the MS. is however 1484 only. In the printed text edited by Jivānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhattācārya published in Calcutta in 1893, similar discrepancy occurs when sloka no 5 mentions the total number of ślokas as 1800, whereas the number of slokas printed are 1568 only by counting. The content of the work is also mentioned in the 1st chapter of the Manuscript. Date of the scribe mentioned in the Post -Colophon is Samvat 1933 and Saka 1797 - A.D. 1875. The serial numbers of the verses are faulty. At the end, the verse no. 23 appears to be the concluding verse closing the chapter of Rasāyana Kalpa, whereas the verses no. 24 and 25 should be earlier ones. The entire text consists of 68 chapters (adhyāyaḥ) terminating in Rasāyanakalpa.
Beginning :
श्रीगणेशाय नमः । श्रीशालिहोत्राय नमः ॥ प्रणम्य शंकर भक्त्या शंकरं सर्वदेहिनां (नाम्) । शिवाय जगतो जात(ता) शिवांचापि विशेषतः ॥१॥ शिष्याववो (बो), शब्दार्थ ग्रन्थविस्तारवर्जितं (तम्) । लक्षणं वाजिदेहस्थ संक्षेपेण यथाक्रम(मम्) ॥२॥ चिकित्सा च समाने(से)न सिद्धौषधसमन्विता । मुनिप्रा(प्रो)क्तानि शाखाणि सम्यगालोका (क्य) वाजिना (नाम्) ॥३॥ श्रीमविजयदत्तस्य पुत्रेण क्रियते (5)धुना । श्रीमता जयदत्तेन वाहानां हितमिच्छता (ताम्) ४॥ अध्यायाना यथायोग षष्टपति (वि)कसंख्यया ।
लोकाना दिसहस्रेण शताष्ट संयुतेन चा(च) ॥५॥ End:
श्रीगालिहोत्रादिमुनिः(नि)प्रणीतं दास्य(ब) गावं ब(ब)विस्तरं च । स्वल्पप्रबो (बो) सकलं यथार्थ (प)कृतं च ती जयदत्तकेन ॥२३॥ सौवल तथा हिंगु पुष्कर विड्दारिम(मम्) । अधिक मेथिकाची भिषक् पिरच कारयेत् ॥२४॥