Volume 1

A handlist of the Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / by D. Wujastyk.

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date:
1985-
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Credit: A handlist of the Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / by D. Wujastyk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    black paper. — With wooden end-boards and silk wrapping. — Includes the Mahasaqivarahfdaya, the Vajramahakala [=VajravarahI?], the Mahamanjusribhattarakapratijnanamadhara$I. — Probably all by the same scribe as <5 31(i) Pancarakga and (ii) Mahayana stotras. — Nepalese script. Leaf 4v has: iti mahasaipmvalahfdaya samapta Leaves 8v-9r have: iti srivajramahaqikalantre[?]notraiji samapta Leaf 11 has: aryamahamanjusribhattalakapratijnanamadhalani samapta. Shelved at <5 31 (iii). [Mahayana stotras] mixed leaves: paper. — In Sanskrit. Pancarakga (6 31 (i)). — Nepalese script. Shelved at <5 31 (ii). [Mahayana stotras]. — AD 1766 Serial no.7 leaves 2-25: paper; 7x24cm. — In Sanskrit. — Date of copying: cf. 6 31. — Gold ink on black paper. — With wooden end-boards and silk wrapping. — Covers verses 2-56, each of which is in praise of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. — Possibly by the same scribe as <5 31 (i) Pancarakga and (iii) Dharayis. — Nepalese script. Shelved at 6 31 (ii). Pancarakga Serial no.8 misc. leaves: paper, 1 col. ill. — In Sanskrit. — With a carved wooden cover; other from another MS. — Nepalese script. Shelved at 6 34. Pancarakga. — AD 1384 Serial no.9 leaves 1-50, 52-65, 67-101, 101a-104, 106-155: palm-leaf, ill.; 5x36cm. — In Sanskrit. — Date of copying: samvat 505 srava^asuklalj [...] samvat 504 margasirasuklapratipadyaip tithau //. — Bibliography: cf. ABC 48, pp.159-164. — With wooden end-boards. — Complete: Mahasahasrapramardani (ends leaf 39r), Mahamayuri (99v), Serial no.6 — Leaves muddled with