The Bower Manuscript is a medical manuscript written predominantly in the Sanskrit language,
made up of 51 birch bark leaves, written in an early Indian script. It is today preserved as part of the collections of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Bower Manuscript in reality is a collection of seven distinct manuscripts, or it may be called a collective manuscript of seven parts.
Section 1 below is an edited extract from A History of Indian Medical Literature by G. J. Meulenbeld (1999–2002), vol. IIa, pp. 3–12.
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