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214
Vaidyaka
176.
Description. Country paper; Devanagari characters; hand-writing bold and legible; two lines in black ink on each border; verse numbers, names of authorities quoted and colophons are tinged with red pigment. Paper is very fragile, worn out and musty. The codex consists of 6 parts which are as follows.
I.
aga-foll. 1-128; fol. 100 repeated with second fol. 100 blank; fol. 115 is missing; total number of actual leaves 12. It forms the first 5 chapters of the work which contains 8 chapters. Benedictory phrase, marks of punctuation with verse numbers, topic-headings, etc., in red ink, on foll. 1-61.
II. dags-fol. 15-261; foll. 61 and 101-261 missing No. of actual leaves 81. It contains the last 3 chapters.
III. Seven unidentified leaves, with no numbers.
IV. Five unidentified leaves, with foll. 6-8, 10 and 13. V. Fragments of fol. II and another unidentified actual leaves 2.
leaf;
VI. One entire leaf marked 107(?); 2 fragments, one of leaf 98 and another of a different leaf. Total No. of leaves 106.
Age. Date given at the end of Part II, Sam. 1815.
Author.
Candrața, son of Tisata.
Part I
Begins. fol. rb
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥
भक्त्या प्रणम्य दिनकरमुद्योतितसकलदशादिशाभागं ॥ वैद्याश्विनौ सुरेज्यौ भिषग्वरं तीसढं पितरम् ॥ १ ॥ उद्धत्यानृतवत्सारमायुर्वेदमहोदधेः ।
क्रियते चंद्रटेनैष योगरत्नसमुच्च ॥ २ ॥ घृत-तैल-चूर्ण-एटिका- वलेह -गदशांति-कर्म्म -कल्पाख्यैः ॥ अधिकारैः प्रत्येक वसुसंख्येर्भूषितो भुवने ॥ ३ ॥