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English: Two leaves from the large 13th-century Sanskrit medical manuscript named Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha by Vaṅgasena. It is also called Vaidyavallabha or Vaṅgasena samhita. The original was written in the 11th-century by the Bengali author.

The text has 96 chapters and belongs to the Ayurveda genre of texts. It describes diseases and their treatment. The last sections of the text discusses unguents, diaphoretics, emetics and materia medica.

Vangasena’s cites and credits his treatise to Charaka Samhita, Sushruta samhita and Madhava's Rogavinishcaya

Ernst Haas compared versions of this text, including this manuscript. He notes that the versions were highly divergent, a common problem in Indic texts where the same text exists in numerous versions and the preparation of a critical edition is challenging yet necessary to avoid gross misinterpretations.

Cecil Bendall purchased this manuscript in February 1898–9 in Nepal. The manuscript is now preserved as MS Add.1707 at the Cambridge University LIbrary.

Language: Sanskrit

Script: Pala

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