Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.22

c8.22

§ 5. Siddhayoga and Madhavanidana:—Siddhayoga or Vṛndamādhava of Vṛnda with the commentary of Śrīkaṇṭhadatta is excellently printed in ĀSS (Poona 1894, pp. 665). Like Cakradatta (§ 4) it exhaustively deals in 82 Adhikāras firstly with the treatment of diseases from fever to poisoning wherein many recipes—mostly provided with corresponding titles are prescribed, and they can partly be identified with those in the Bower MS¹. It then (pp. 515 ff.) deals with elixirs, aphrodisiacs, Bṛṃhaṇa, Svedana, Vamana, Virecana and the like, with the signs of approaching death (Ariṣṭa), Hygiene (Svasthādhikāra) and under the title Miśrakādhikāra it deals in short with physicians, patients, weights and measures and similar general questions. The close adherence of this work to a distinguished author like Cakradatta makes it probable that it had already attained great authority in his (Cakradatta's) times and consequently must have come into existence at least about a century earlier. Several long quotations from Vṛnda² are also found in Hemādri (13th cen.). Vṛnda is besides cited in Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā (§ 3), in Virasiṃhavaloka³