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Wellcome MS Sinhalese 79. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome MS Sinhalese 79.
- Date:
- 19th century
- Manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Publication/Creation
19th century.
Physical description
3.5 x 20 cm
Notes
Palm-leaf; ff. 146, i; mixed, traditional foliation; 3.5 x 19.6 cm; six lines, 17 cm long to a side; average sized hand; popular orthography; two wooden covers have been cut to fit into this MS; 19th-century copy.
Contents
I. ff 1-3. Kalāva pihitana vidhiya. Points of the body where 'kalāva' is found on a particular day. -- II. ff. 3a-7b. Nādi laksana sāstraya. Tamil text (copied in Sinhala script) with Sinhala paraphrase on nädi or pulse beat. -- III. ff 8a-33b. Sannipāta jvara cikitsā : Sanni lakunu dūtayā. On fevers and their treatment. -- IV. ff. 34a-124a. Sanni guli hā sarvānga veda potak. Pills for fevers, and other prescriptions. Text commences with verses, and later medical recipes only in prose. -- V. ff. 125a-l46b. Sanni guli vedakam. Pills etc. for fevers, in verse and prose.
References note
For full description see 'Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' / K.D. Somadasa. London : Wellcome Trust, 1996
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