A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c22.121

v1.c22.121

The references to Naradatta suggest that he wrote, apart from the commentary on the *Carakasaṃhitā*, a medical treatise. This work may have been the *Bṛhattantrapradīpa*, quoted by Niścala. The authorship of this work is uncertain, since Niścala only mentions its title, but it may well have been written by Naradatta, Cakrapāṇi’s teacher, which would explain that Cakrapāṇi incorporated two recipes from the *Bṛhattantrapradīpa* in his *Cikitsāsaṃgraha*.⁴⁸² Niścala mentions the *Bṛhattantrapradīpa* twice in his commentary on the mukharoga chapter. He says that some verses of Cakṣuṣyeṇa are found in that work; 483 he also quotes it on the subject of a disorder called khaṇḍauṣṭha, described by Cakṣuṣyeṇa, Candraṭa, Nāgabhartṛ, Vāgbhaṭa, and in the Carakottaratantra, Āyurvedasāra and Bṛhattantrapradīpa. 484