Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c17.49.1

c17.49.1

p.13.l.21—For the modern character of the so-called Saṃhitās see S. N. Dasgupta, *HIP*, II, p. 432. Some such works may be recorded here:—(1) Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā quoted by Cakrapāṇi in comm. on Car, Sūtra. chap. 27; comm. on Su, Sūtra. chap. 14; Śivadāsa in his comm. on Cikitsāsārasaṃgraha, Jvarādhikāra (cf. Gananath Sen, *PS*, p. 23; S. N. Dasgupta, *HIP* II, 432, (2) Khara-pāda Saṃhitā. Even though not available now, it was utilized by Cakrapāṇi, Vijayarakṣita (comm. on MN, Jvaranidānādhikāra), Hemādri (comm. on AHr, sūtra. 8.3), Aruṇadatta (cf. comm. on AHr, Cikitsā. 1.34,77). Keśava—a contemporary of Aruṇadatta, a protege of king Siṃhaṇa or Siṃhaṇa II (Siṃharāja) of the later Yādavas of Devagiri and a resident of Vedapura, refers to Kharaṇādi in his work called Siddhamantra. He is variously called as Kharaṇāda, Kharaṇādi, Khāraṇādi, Khāraṇāda. The name Kharaṇādi was current in Maharashtra, while in Bengal he was known as Kharaṇāda. Vopadeva in his Siddhamantraprakāśa comm. on Siddhamantra—the work of his father, also quotes from Kharaṇādi. Kharaṇādi's work seems to have been in verse. Kharaṇāda is also referred to in the Ratnaprabhā comm. of Niścalakara on Cakrapāṇidatta's Dravyaguṇa-saṃgraha, and by Vācaspati in his comm. on MN (p.50). A leaf of the MS Kharaṇadanyāsa was discovered, among other things, in the excavations made by Pandit M. S. Kaul at Gilgit in Kashmir. This Kharaṇadanyāsa is a comm.