Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t3: § 75. The Glosses of Chakrapāṇidatta
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t3
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§ 75. The Glosses of Chakrapāṇidatta
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The glosses of Chakrapāṇidatta are edited from the following materials:
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1. T = Tübingen MS., No. 463 (vol. II), fls. 284 b, 285 a.
2. C = Copy of the osteological statement, as contained in the manuscript in Dr. P. Cordier's possession (see § 11, footnote 1), kindly supplied by him to me.
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They run as follows:
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Tatra ayam-ity-ādi | śiro-grīvam-etad-ekam-eva śiro-vivakṣāyām | antarādhir-madhye | ṣaṣṭāni iti ṣaṣṭy-adhikāni | dant-olūkhalakaṃ yatr-āśrito dantaḥ¹ | yadyapi nakhā Vividhāsītapitīyena mala-bhoga-poṣyatvena mala eva² prakṣiptās-tathāp-īh-āsthitā³-rūpa-yogasy-āpi vidyamānatvād-asthi-gaṇanāyāṃ paṭhitāḥ⁴ | pratyaṅguli-parva-trayaṃ tena viṃśaty-aṅguli-gatam-asthnāṃ viṃśati-trayaṃ⁵ bhavati | vṛddh-āṅguṣṭhe ca hasta-pāda-praviṣṭaṃ tṛtīyaṃ⁶ parva jñeyam | vṛddh-āṅguṣṭha-śalākā api svalpa-pramāṇā jñeyā | aṅgulīnāṃ śalākā yatra saṃlagnāḥ tac-chalāk-ādhiṣṭhānam⁷ | jānu jānukam⁸ jaṅgh-orvoḥ sandhiḥ | akṣakau koṣṭh-āvāk aṃsa-jatru-sandheḥ kīlakau⁹ | tālūṣake tālv-asthinī | bhag-āsthi abhimukhaṃ kaṭi-sandhāna-kārakam¹ tiryag-asthi | sthalakāni iti parśukānāṃ mūla-sthānāni nimnanī² | sthalak-ārbudāni tu parśuk-āsthiṣu nimneṣu madhye sthitāny³arbud-ākārāny=asthīni | nāsikā-gaṇḍakūṭa-lalāṭair=militvā⁴ ekam=eva asthi gaṇanīyam | ye⁵ tu pṛthag-aṅgāni⁶paṭhanti teṣāṃ nāsā-gaṇḍakūṭa-lalāṭānāṃ trayāṇāṃ triṇy=eva asthīni iti na⁷ saṅkhyā-pūraṇam ||
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¹ T dant-olūkhalako, C danteṣ-ūlūkhalaṃ yatr-āśritā dantaḥ |
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² T vividhāsītapitīyena mana-bhoga-poṣyatvena mana eva ; C vividhāsītapitīye mala-bhāga-poṣyatvena male eva |
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³ T āstitā ||
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⁴ So T; C has patitāḥ |
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⁵ So C; T reads annāṃ viṃśatiyaṃ |
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⁶ So T, except that it has va for ca. C reads yad-dhasta-pāda-praviṣṭaṃ tat tṛtīyam |
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⁷ C tatra śalāk-āṅguṣṭh-ādhiṣṭhānam |
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⁸ T om. jānu, C om. jānukam |
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⁹ Conjectural; T has akṣakāṣ-koṣṭāmvāṃkaśayattu sandhe kīlakau; C reads akṣāv-iv-ākṣakau jatru-sandheḥ kīlakau | The reading of C conveys the impression of being a conjectural emendation of a corrupt text, perhaps made by the person who copied C for Dr. P. Cordier. It is clearly not the original reading; for (1) it is so simple and easy that it seems difficult to conceive how a copyist, however ignorant he might be, should transmogrify it into the reading of the Tübingen MS., from which it widely differs; and (2) it involves for the terms jatru and sandhi the meanings ‘collar-bone’ and ‘connecting-link’, which are quite unknown to the older Indian medical science (see § 62). Literally that reading may be translated: ‘The two axle-like akṣaka are the pegs of the clavicular connexion’; i. e. the two clavicles (jatru) which connect (sandhi) the neck with the shoulder are pegs (kīlaka) resembling the axle of a car which connects its wheels with one another, and hence are called ‘little axles’ (akṣaka, diminutive of akṣa). In the older Indian Medicine, jatru means the windpipe or neck, and sandhi denotes an articulation. See my article in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1906, pp. 922 ff.
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¹ So C; but T reads atisukhaṃ kāya-sandhāna-kārakam |
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² So T; but C reads mūla-sthāna-lagnāni |
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³ So T; but C reads only parśuka-mūlāny |
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⁴ So T; but C has lalāṭānām-eka-mūlatvād, which reading yields exactly the same sense.
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⁵ T om. ye |
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⁶ So C; but T pṛthag-gaṇanāt |
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⁷ So T; but C has ekatvena tu for iti na, which yields the same meaning.
Linked texts (1)
- Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit