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379 Surgical treatment is, in spite of this statement, occasionally described (14.60–61). Compare Ca.Ci.14.33–34 and Su.Ci.6.3, 14.35–36 and Su.Ci.6.10. 380 See Ca.Ci.14.84cd–85ab on the three varieties of takra (diluted buttermilk); see also Cakra's comments. Compare on the treatment of haemorrhoids: Bhela Ci.16.27cd–87ab. See on haemorrhoids and their treatment in Siddha medicine: K. Meenakshisundaramoorthy (1983). 381 Broth made with the meat of the two-humped camel (dvikakuda) is mentioned (14.207). 382 Cf. Gadanigraha, prayogakhanda, āsavādhikāra 101–104. Another takrāriṣṭa is described at Ca.Ci.15.117cd–121. 383 Mentioned in the Bhelasamhitā (Ci.6.51). Cf. Su.Ci.6.15 and Dalhana's comment; A.h. Ci. 8.64cd–69; A.s.Ci.10.19; Mādhavacikitsā, arśas 385–391; Gadanigraha, prayogakhanda, āsavādhikāra 75–89ab (three recipes). See on abhayāriṣṭa: P.J. Sharma and C.I. Jolly (1992). 384 Cf. Su.Ci.6.14 and Dalhana's comment; Gadanigraha, prayogakhanda, āsavādhikāra 71–74. See on the uses of dantī: P.V. Sharma (1996): 182–183. 385 Cf. Gadanigraha, prayogakhanda, āsavādhikāra 52–66 (two recipes). 386 See on the uses of hrīvera: P.V. Sharma (1996): 415–416. 387 Cf. Mādhavacikitsā, arśas 50; Cakradatta, arśas 129–137. See on the uses of cāngerī and suniṣaṇṇaka: P.V. Sharma (1996): 141–142 and 393–394. 388 See on this chapter; R.F.G. Müller (1953). 389 Cakra remarks that the chapter also deals with agnidoṣa (disorders of the digestive fire), because the grahaṇī is the seat of this fire. Grahaṇīdoṣa is usually identified as a (secondary) malabsorption syndrome; malabsorption may be due to non-tropical sprue or tropical sprue; secondary malabsorption is often caused by a parasitic infection in the tropics. Symptoms resembling grahaṇīdoṣa are also found in chronic calcareous pancreatitis, a disorder more frequent in Southern than in Northern India, and with a high prevalence in Kerala (see M.J. Joshi and C.D. Deshpande, 1972: 14–15). See on grahaṇīdoṣa: G.J. Meulenbeld (1974): 619; O.P. Dixit (1973–74); S.N. Tripathi, S.K. Srivastava and K. Chandrasekhar (1974). See on a related disease (duṣṭhagahaṇīka), mentioned in Pali literature: K.G. Zysk (1991): 105–106. 390 The digestive fire is mentioned explicitly in the Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad and possibly already in Rgveda and Atharvaveda (see J. Filliozat, 1975: 48). 391 See P.V. Sharma (1994): 156–158. 392 See P.V. Sharma (1994): 158. 393 Compare on Graeco-Roman theories about digestion: E.D. Baumann (1934a). 394 Śukra, the seventh dhātu, is an exception to this rule (Cakra). 395 See Cakra's elaborate comments. See P.V. Sharma (1959): 159–160. Cf. Bhela Sū.11.2cd–4ab. 396 These are called upadhātu (see Cakra's comments). 397 See Cakra's comments. 398 These verses, not elucidated by Cakrapāṇi, are placed between brackets in many editions. 399 Cf. Bhela Sū.10. 400 Cf. Su.U.40.171–173. 401 Cf. Su.U.40.169–170.