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Baumann (1927); G.C. Moss (1967); B. Simon (1978). See on insanity in Byzantine and Islamic medicine: M. Dols (1985). 94 Cf. Ca.Ci.9.⁸; Su.U.62.4–5ab. 95 Cf. Bhela Ci.8.2cd–9. See on these channels: A. Roşu (1978): 207. Many emotions are enumerated as causes of unmāda; see on the role of these intense affects: G.J. Meulenbeld (1997): 193–194. A codification of the emotions is absent from Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra. Insanity by frustrated love is a favourite topic of Sanskrit literature; famous examples are Kālidāsa’s Vikramorvaśīya and Bhavabhūti’s Mālatīmādhava. 96 Cf. Su.U.62.³. 97 Cf. Su.U.62.6–7. 98 Cf. Ca.Ci.9.10–15; Bhela Ni.8.2–11; Su.U.62.8–11. 99 Cf. Ca.Ci.9; Su.U.62.14–20ab. 100 Cf. Ca.Ci.9.20; Su.U.60.6–7. 101 Compare Ca.Ni.⁷.12 and Su.U.60.19. Cf. Ca.Ci.9.18. 102 Cf. Ca.Ci.9.23; Su.U.60.⁵. 103 Cf. Bhela Ni.7.11. 104 Cf. Ca.Ci.10; Bhela Ni.8 and Ci.9. Apasmāra is also the name of a demon, represented beneath the feet of Śiva Naṭarāja in many South Indian sculptures; see on this figure: J.N. Banerjea (1956: see index); N.K. Bhattasali (1929): 112; H. Krishna Sastri (1916): 79, 84, 90, 141; D. Smith (1986): 93–95. See on epilepsy in Indian medicine: K.C. Dube (1978): 221; S.P. Gupta (1977); Jyotir Mitra (1985): 237; B.V. Manyam (1992); G.J. Meulenbeld (1997): 212–215; S. Venkataraghavan, V. Rajagopalan and Kanchana Srinivasan (1987); M.G. Weiss (1977). See on epilepsy in India: N. Chevers (1886): 441–444. See on the history of epilepsy: O. Temkin (1994). See on epilepsy in Graeco-Roman medicine: E.D. Baumann (1923), (1925). 105 Cf. Ca.Ci.10.8cd; Bhela Ni.8.¹; Su.U.61.10d–11ab. 106 Cf. Ca.Ci.10.4–8ab; Bhela Ci.9.2–4; Su.U.61.4–6 and 8–10c. 107 Cf. Ca.Ci.10.3; Su.U.61.3. K.C. Dube (1978: 221) claims (without giving references) that apasmāra is of two types: sādhāraṇa (petit mal) and ugra (grand mal); the ugra type has two kinds of manifestations: pūrvakṣepa (the aura) and ākṣepa (the attack). 108 Cf. Su.U.61.7. 109 Cf. Ca.Ci.10.8cd–12ab; Bhela Ni.8.2–12; Su.U.61.11cd–17ab. 110 Cakra says that possession (bhūtasambandha) is always present as a secondary factor in epilepsy, which is never independent (svatantra). Cf. Ca.Ci.10.53; Su.U.61.7cd–18ab. See also M.G. Weiss (1977): 155. 111 Cakra remarks that only the prime origin (prathamotpatti) of fever should be ascribed to Rudra’s wrath at Dakṣa’s insolence; the other diseases arose at a later time, after the sacrifice. 112 These are the eight diseases discussed in the Nidānasthāna.