Vaidyavallabha - Gyan Bhandaar
Gyan Bhandaar
This page contains the catalog entry for a handwritten Ayurvedic manuscript titled Vaidyavallabhaḥ authored by Kavihastiruciḥ. The manuscript consists of 23 leaves written in Devanagari script and dated to Samvat 1907. It is preserved in the Vishveshvaranand Vishvabandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies at Panjab University, Hoshiarpur, under manuscript number 1459. The work appears to be a medical treatise, as indicated by its title meaning "beloved of physicians" or "excellent among doctors."
Sanskrit

Vaidyavallabha

This 15th-century Sanskrit medical manuscript, titled *Vaidyavallabha* and composed by the physician-poet Kavihastiruci in Saṃvat 1907 (circa 1850 CE), represents a significant contribution to Ayurvedic therapeutics, specifically focusing on the classification and treatment of fever (*jvara*). The text systematically delineates diagnostic protocols and pharmacological remedies for various fever types—including *vāta*, *pitta*, *kapha*, *sannipāta*, *vātapiṭṭa*, *kaphapitta*, *śīta*, *cāturdhika*, *tṛtīyaka*, and *ekāntara* fevers—employing complex polyherbal formulations, decoctions (*kaṣāya*), medicated ghee (*ghṛta*), nasal preparations (*nasya*), fumigations (*dhūpa*), and external applications (*lepa*). The manuscript's structured versification and extensive materia medica, featuring ingredients such as *kaṇṭakārī*, *śuṇṭhī*, *mustā*, *nimba*, *bhṛṅgarāja*, and *daśamūla*, demonstrate sophisticated Ayurvedic nosological categorization and therapeutic precision characteristic of classical Indian medical literature.