A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.2

v4.c57.2

The edition of the Bower MS contains a long Introduction (ninety-five pages) in eight chapters: (1) the discovery of the Bower Manuscript: its date, locality, circumstances, importance, etc.; (2) description of the Bower Manuscript; (3–4) the script, the scribes, and their wages in the Bower Manuscript; (5) the date of the writing of the Bower Manuscript; (6) on the sources and the date of the Nāvanītaka; (7) language and composition in the treatises of the Bower Manuscript; (8) subject and contents of the treatises in the Bower Manuscript. Hoernle added a number of appendices to the sections on the seven parts composing the Bower MS: an appendix to part V: The Pāśaka-kevali; appendix I to part VI: On the Nāgas, Nāgarājas and other supernatural beings; appendix II to part VI: The Khandhavatta-Jātaka; an appendix to parts VI and VII (written in 1911): The Mahāmāyūrī Vidyā-rājñī. The edition ends with a complete Sanskrit index, a general English index, a list of emendations, and a list of misprints.