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IO SAN 1351C

Record Id:
032-003719961
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032-003719961
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 1351C
Title:
Śabdapradīpa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.49
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Sanskrit
Scripts:
Devanagari
Start Date:
1664
End Date:
1664
Date Range:
1664
Era:
CE
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Names:
Sureśvara (or Surapāla)
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India Office Library

IO SAN 1351C

Śabdapradīpa

Contents

Language(s): sa

Title: Śabdapradīpa
Author: Sureśvara (or Surapāla)

A dictionary of medical botany.

The author was the son of Bhadreśvara, grandson of Yaśodhana, and great-grandson of Devagaṇa. He was court physician ti King Bhīmapāla, his father having acted in a simialr capacity to Rāmapāla of Bengal, and his great-grandfather to king Govindracandra.

Cf. Dietz, Anal. Med., p. 151.

Incipit: bhāgīrathītaralatuṅgataraṅgamauliḥ śaśvatsphuracchaśikalāmamalāṃ dadhānaḥ | līlācalacchapharikāmiva candralekhācūḍāmaṇirbhavatu vo vijayāya nityaṃ || dhīraḥ kavirmadhuravāg niravadyavidyavaidyottamo vimalakīrtilatāvitānaḥ | f. 1v
Colophon: iti śrīrājavaidyāntaraṅgaśrīsureśvaraviracitaṃ śabdapradīpanāmadravyābhidhānaṃ samāptaṃ || saṃvat 1721 varṣe pauṣasudipañcamīsome || f. 49v
Explicit: iti kṣakārādivargaḥ || dravyāvalitilesena (?vilāsena) vyañjanādīni yatnataḥ | śrīmān sureśvaro vaidyavidyāvidvānacīkarat || [.....] so 'yaṃ sudhāsodaravāgvilāsair dātā suciḥ satyarataḥ kṣamāvān | vṛddhopasevī karūṇārdracittaḥ śabdapradīpaṃ kṛtavān manīṣī ||
ff. 49r-49v

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: ff.49
Dimensions (leaf): 27.9 × 12.7 cm.
Dimensions (written): 20 × 8 cm.

Condition

Good

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 10

9-12 lines in a page.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1664

Provenance and Acquisition

H.T. Colebrooke

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Surrogates

Microfilm IOL 202

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