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IO SAN 2536

Record Id:
032-003720271
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 2536
Title:
Śālihotra
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
foll.174
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Sanskrit
Scripts:
Devanagari
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1600
Date Range:
1550-1600
Era:
CE
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Names:
Śālihotra Muni
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IO SAN 2536

Śālihotra

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Title: Śālihotra

A systematic work on the veterinary art.

The Ms is named after its reputed author who is represented in this work as the son of Hayaghosha and the fathers of Suśruta, in answer to whose questions he expounds the "hayāyurveda" revealed to him by Brahman himself.

According to th eanalysis given in the introductory chapter, the complete work consists of eight sthānas, only the first of which, and even this not quite complete, is contained in the present Ms.

At the end of the MS. some leaves have been lost. it is mentioned under its old number (2041) in Dietz, Anal. Med., p.155. Besides the two a similar one is known in the Berlin Library, no.944. The information gathered in the Berl. Cat. by Prof. Weber regarding the adaptation of such works in Arabic and Persian may here be completed by the quotation of an English book published in calcutta in 1788 under the following title

Author: Śālihotra Muni
Incipit: śrīvatsavakṣasaḥ kāṃtāṃ praṇamya turagāraṇīṃ(!) |śriyaṃ devīṃ pravakṣyāmi turaṃgāṇāṃ cikitsitaṃ॥१॥ kṛtāginahotramāsīnaṃ śālihotra mahāmuniṃ। suśrutaḥ śrutasaṃpatraḥ papraccha pitaraṃ stutaṃ॥२॥ f. 1v
"maṇtrayogaḥ kriyāyogo rahasyopaniṣattathā| ityetadaṣṭamaṃ sthānaṃ rahasyaṃ parikīrtitaṃ॥ aṣṭāṃgametadvidayaṃ (? dhau) sthānaiḥ sarvaistathāṣṭabhiḥ| hayāyurvedamakhilaṃ brahmā śubhaṃ caturmukhaḥ॥iti śrīśrīśālihotre āyurvedotyattiḥ prathamaḥ॥ athovāca punaḥ putraṃ śālihotrastu suśrutaṃ| śiṣyopanayanaṃ nāma suśrutātha śṛṇuṣva me॥ f. 5r "

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: foll.174
Dimensions (leaf): 25.4 × 14.6 cm.
Dimensions (written): 20.5 × 7.5 cm.
Foliation:

modern foliation 169. six foll (112, 130, 135, 154, 167, 169) are missing; while folio 48 is double.

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History

Origin: 1550-1600

Provenance and Acquisition

Gaekwad

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Surrogates

Microfilm IOL 1572

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