Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c17.49.2

c17.49.2

on a work of Kharaṇāda on medicine, giving portion of a chapter relating to pregnancy. Both the text and the comm. are known at present through quotations only. The work of Kharaṇāda seems to have been older than AHr. Prof. P. K. Gode is inclined to fix A. D. 650 as the terminus before which Kharaṇāda may have composed his work, and about 850 A. D. as the terminus before which the Nyāsa was composed. cf. P. K. Gode, ABORI XX, pt. 1, pp. 97-102; PO IV, pp. 49-62. cf. also S. N. Dasgupta, HIP II, 432; Gananath Sen, PS, p.21. (3) Parāśara Saṃhitā, a work on Kāyacikitsā. This is quoted by Vijayarakṣita and Śrīkaṇṭhadatta and Śivadāsa (in his comm. on Cikitsāsārasaṃgraha of Cakrapāṇi, Rasacikitsā) cf. S. N. Dasgupta, HIP II 432; Gananath Sen, ibid. p. 20. (4) Kṣārapāṇi Saṃhitā, a work on Kāyacikitsā, quoted by Vijayarakṣita, Śrīkaṇṭhadatta and Śivadāsa (comm. on Cakrapāṇi's Cikitsā., Kāyacikitsā) cf. S. N. Dasgupta, ibid.; Gananath Sen, ibid. (5) Jatūkarṇa Saṃhitā, a work on Kāyacikitsā, mainly composed in prose. Quoted by Cakrapāṇi (comm. on Car, sūtra. 2.5), Vijayarakṣita (comm. on MN, Jvarādhikāra, Hikkāśvāsādhikāra), Śivadāsa (comm. on Cikitsā.). cf. Gananath Sen, ibid.; S. N. Dasgupta, ibid. (6) Bhāradvāja Saṃhitā, contains within it a small work called Bheṣajakalpa, a comm. by Veṅkateśa (Dr. Cordier, Recent Discoveries of Medical MSS in India, 1898-1900), cf. S. N. Dasgupta, ibid. (7) Kāśyapa-saṃhitā. A work on midwifery and gynaecology and children's diseases, edited by Y.