Vaidyasarvasva - Gyan Bhandaar
Gyan Bhandaar
Catalog entry for the Ayurvedic medical manuscript Vaidya Sarvasva, the Complete Medical Compendium, authored by Kashirama. This is manuscript number 949 from the 1891-95 collection, with new number 17, located in volume XVI part I page 290. The manuscript has been microfilmed and contains details of folios, lines, and letter count in its extent record.
Sanskrit

Vaidyasarvasva

This Sanskrit medical manuscript, titled *Vaidya Sarvasva* (The Entirety of Medicine) by Kāśīrāma, constitutes a comprehensive Ayurvedic treatise preserved in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute collection (No. 949 of 1891–95). The excerpted folio presents detailed discussions of doṣa pathology, including the sixfold classification of morbid humors (ṣaḍdoṣabheda) and their symptomatic manifestations in states of excess (vṛddhi). The text further elaborates pharmacological properties of honey (madhu) across its four varieties—mākṣika, paitṭika, kṣaudra, and bhrāmara—followed by an anatomical enumeration of the 900 snāyu (tendons/ligaments) and 210 sandhi (joints) according to classical Ayurvedic osteology. Notable features include metrical verses interspersed with prose commentary, technical terminology for surgical anatomy, and preservation marks indicating microfilm documentation, reflecting its significance for the history of Indian medicine and manuscript traditions.