This page contains catalog information for an Ayurvedic manuscript titled Madhavanidana or Atanka Darpana, authored by Madhava and edited by Vachaspati. The manuscript is part of the handwritten collection at the Vishveshvaranand Vishvabandhu Sanskrit and Bharat-Bharati Institute of Panjab University in Hoshiarpur, cataloged as number 1578. It consists of 47 pages written in Devanagari script and focuses on Ayurvedic medicine, specifically the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The outer cover bears the handwritten number 1578 in two locations, with additional printed and pencil markings indicating archival processing. This record documents the manuscript's physical characteristics, institutional provenance, and scholarly attribution without specifying a date or acquisition source.

Sanskrit

Mādhavanidāna 2

This 47-folio manuscript, cataloged as item 1578 in the Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute collection, preserves a significant recension of the *Mādhavanidāna* (also titled *Ātankadarpaṇa*), a foundational Ayurvedic diagnostic treatise attributed to Mādhava with commentary by Vācaspati. The outer cover's detailed Sanskrit colophon identifies the subject as Āyurveda, written in Devanagari script, and describes the physical condition as "complete, easily legible, and well-preserved" (pūrṇaṃ suvācyaṃ surakṣitaṃ ca). The opening folio contains elaborate maṅgalācaraṇa verses invoking Gaṇeśa, Sarasvatī, and Śiva, followed by a eulogy of King Hammīra as patron, establishing the text's courtly provenance and ritual framing. The manuscript's marginalia reveal complex textual transmission history, including multiple catalog numbers, cross-references to jvara-nidāna (fever diagnosis) sections, and ownership marks, while the main text presents the seminal pentad of diagnostic methods (*nidāna*, *pūvarūpa*, *rūpa*, *upaśaya*, *samprāpti*) that became canonical in Ayurvedic nosology.