Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / K.D. Somadasa.

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library
Date:
1996
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Credit: Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / K.D. Somadasa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    126/432 (page 120)
    Palm-leaf; ff. i, I68(ka-r), iv; 5.7 x 45 cm; eight lines, 41 cm long to a side; medium-small skilled hand; good orthography; plain wooden covers; Dutch VOC coin dated AD 1787 used as medallion; unusable, damaged copy; early 19th century. Saras añksepaya A Sanskrit medical work attributed to Sri Candra räjaguru, with a Sinahala paraphrase. Printed edn Sarasanksepaya, Simhala sanna sahita, by Äpä Appuhämi and Kaviratna (eds) - Colombo: 1865. Begin: 1st line is damaged. .. .Brahmädi sarva varadäma ramä narasca, brahmä gatasca munayostaka bhairaväs ca, nityanta prasüra mañgalamamunedyuh. ... yatho- palabdhi vividham Säsamksepamucate. Atha rögänukramam näma. End: Iti Särasamksepe vyädhikarana cikitsäddhyäyah ... Iti Räjaguru ... Sri Candrena krtamidam Särasamsepa samäptam. yadi samproktake drsta, tädisam likhitam mayä aksaräni paribhrasta, mama doso na vidyate. ws. 124 Palm-leaf; ff. 20(1-20); foliated in Tamil numerals 1-22, now lacking two leaves, f. 13 and 20 of original foliation; 4.1 x 40.1 cm; three to four quatrains to a side; round, skilled hand; rows of kuñdalis or punctuation marks separate the verses; leaves damaged including parts of the text; early 19th-century copy. Löväda sangaräva (kavi) A Sinhala poem containing Buddhist morals composed by Vldägama Maitreya maha-thera. For notes see p. 211-212 of Sinhalese literature , by C E Godakumbura - Colombo: 1955. For a pr. edn see Löväda sangaräva - Colombo: 1866. The number of verses in pr. edns and MS vary. Begin: f. la, v.l. Text is damaged. set siri dena maha guna muhudänan sat-hata vana bava dukata vedänan tit ganañduru dura lana dinidänan sit satosin namadin munidänan Present f. 2 contains, w.23, 24, 25, ?, f. 2b: 21, 22, 36, 37; f. 5b, is blank; f. 6a: v.2: pr. v.38; f. 7b is blank; f. 8a: pr. v.v.44; .. .f. 10b, v.l: pr. v.77; f. 12a, v.l: yodun suvâsû dahasak gämbure ... budun vañdim mama adarin nitore; f. 12a, v.2: .. .oba siri päyuga demi mâ mâ mudunê; f. 12a, V .3: ... mama mudunat dl namadin häma kala [f. 12a, v.3], these three verses cannot be traced in the pr. edn, similarly four verses on f. 12b, on pansil; f. 13a, v.2: pr. v.98; pera añganak ek eludenaka isa siñda f. 15a, v.l: pr.v.108; f. 16a, v.l: pr.v.115; f. 16b, v.l: pr.v.118; f. 17a: pr. v. 124; f. 17a, v.3: puravä sat ruvanin mulu deranaya, is a better reading than karavä