Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.6

c8.6

17TH CENTURY:—Definite dates are*: Vaidyavilāsa of Raghunātha Paṇḍita 1697, a short hand-book, printed; Vaidyarahasya of Vidyāpati 1682, mentions syphilis (according to Siṃhjee, written in 1698 which date, however, is a result of mistaking the date of compilation for the date given in the MS L); Cikitsāratnāvali of Kavicandra 1661, on pathology and therapy, copied from Mādhavanidāna according to Haas and Eggeling; Vṛttaratnāvali of Manirām Miśra 1641, a short text-book; Yogasangraha of Jagannātha 1616, on therapy etc. The Yogaratnākara by an unknown author, printed in ĀSS in 1889 (pp. 486) covers the whole medicine with the exception of surgery and anatomy, cites Nirṇayasindhu ( 1611 ), Bhavaprakāśa ( 16th cen. ) and other modern works; it cannot, however, be composed later than 1746, the date of the earliest MS used for the edition ( Siṃhjee; Yogaratnākara 1676 ). Lolimbarāja's Vaidyajīvana, a popular work much commented upon and translated in different modern Indian languages, a very short presentation of therapy in different metres, and full of poetic passages, is according to Siṃhjee, composed in 1633; however, B.4,241 denotes a MS already written in 1608.