A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.774

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¹⁹⁴ Āptopadeśa occupies the first place in the series at Ca.Sū.11.17 and Vi.4.5; pratyakṣa is mentioned first at Vi.8.33 and 83. Āptopadeśa is defined at Ca.Sū.11.19 and Vi.4.4. Compare the definitions of the Nyāyakośa. See on the meaning of āpta: Ca.Sū.11.18.19 and Vi.4.4 (together with Cakra's comments); Jyotir Mitra (1982): 108 (quotations from Nāgeśabhaṭṭa's Laghumañjūṣā and the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa); M. Biardeau (1964): 120–128; G. Oberhammer (1991): 118–120; A. Roṣu (1978): 91–92. Compare Ca.Vi.8.38 on śabda and Cakra's comments on the two types of āptopadeśaśabda: paramāptapraṇīta and brahmādipraṇīta; see also Cakra's comments ad Sū.11.18–19 on the two types of āpta, which distinction has been borrowed from the Nyāyasūtras. The patient himself is an āpta according to Cakra ad Ca.Vi.4.5. The Carakasamhitā also employs the terms āgama (Sū.11.7; see on this term: G. Oberhammer, 1991: 116–117) and āptāgama (Sū.11.27; see on this term: G. Oberhammer, 1991: 121–123). Āgama is the equivalent of āptopadeśa in the Suśrutasamhitā (Sū.1.16). Compare on āptopadeśa: Jyotir Mitra (1982): 108–110; G. Oberhammer (1991): 123.