A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c29.123

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206 Servants with all kinds of special tasks are mentioned: sūpācāka, odanapācaka, snāpaka, saṃvāhaka, utthāpaka, saṃveśaka, auṣadhapeṣaka. Other attendants should be skilled in singing, making music, and telling or reciting various kinds of stories in prose and verse (ullāpaka, śloka, gāthā, ākhyāyikā, itihāsa, purāṇa). See on the terms ākhyāna, itihāsa, purāṇa: M. Banerjea (1997); J. Gonda (1960): 170; A.S. Gupta (1964); M. Müller (1859): 40–42, 110; H. Oldenberg (1883), (1885); E. Sieg (1914), (1969): Einleitung; M. Winternitz (1909); Winternitz I, 89–93, 181, 189, 259, 261, 400, 433, 440–443. Itihāsapurāṇa is a subject already mentioned in the Chāndogyopaniṣad (7.1.2); see also I.B. Horner (1963): I, 5, 252.