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Vaidyaka
918.
चिकित्सासारसंग्रह
Cikitsāsārasangraha or
or चिकित्सातत्त्वसंग्रह
Cikitsātattvasangraba or
or चिकित्सामहार्णव
Clikitsāmahārņva No. 82
1884-87. Size.— 113 in. by 6 in. Extent.— 553+2 leaves; II lines to a page ; 30 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper ; Devanāgari characters; hand-writ
ing good. The Ms. can be divided into 2 parts (i) foll. 1-262 and (ii) foll. 263-550; the first part, which differes in the hand-writing and quality of paper used, is obviously of much later date than second part which is much older, more musty, brittle and almost in a decaying condition ; borders, colophons and topic-headings are in red ink; first part has even the marks of punctuation in red ink. Foll. 306-339 are missing; fol. 361 has only 3 lines ; fol. 455 is blank; fol. 489 is repeated; foll. 527-546 are worm eaten in the middle of the right-hand border. In the 4th verse, fol. 16, the work is named as flamaसंग्रह; in all its colophons it is called चिकित्सामहार्णव ; and as its text entirely agrees with the Mss. of ETHITHSE, I have put it under that name. After the body of the text 2 folios contain an index of the whole work. As about one-third of folio 549 is lost it is impossible to determine its exact date. The last word on fol. 5496 is fan. The
beginning on fol. 5504 is urate a TT ÅTT. Age... Appears to be very old. Author.- Vangasena. Begins.—fol. 1b
ॐ नमो धन्वंतरये ॥ श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः।
नत्वा शिवं प्रथमतः प्रणिपत्य चंडी वाग्देवा तदनु तातपदे गुरूंश्च ॥
etc. same as in No. 76