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82 Ca.Sū 1.30 and 76; 13.3 and 9; 14.71; 15.25; 18.56; 25.3 and 26; Ni.1.44; Śā.1.15; Ci.4.3; 5.3; 6.3; 9.3; 13.4; 14.3; 20.3; 29.3; 30.4; Si.1.6; 7.3. Bhela Sū.25.5. See also A.h.U.40.62; A.s.Sū.1.5. Punarvasu is mentioned in a quotation from the Candraṭasamgraha in Niścala's Ratnaprabhā (ad vṛddhi 22: on the disease kuraṇḍa, which is absent from the Carakasamhitā). Punarvasu is quoted in the interpolated part of the Ratnaprabhā, written by an unknown author (P.V. Sharma, 1993: Intr; 54). Narahari reproduces in his Vāgbhaṭamaṇḍana (61) Punarvasu's answer to a question put to him by Kharaṇāda; this quotation may derive from the Kharaṇādasamhitā; Narahari (70) also cites the words of Punarvasu in reply to questions, attributed to Gajakhaṇḍika and others, on the doses of enemas for various domestic animals (Ca.Si.11.22 is quoted, with a number of variants); Punarvasu is referred to on a third occasion (73) in connection with an unidentified quotation from Dṛḍhabala. A recipe attributed to Punarvasu is found in the Rasaratnākara (II, bradhnavṛddhyadhikāra 18–20: antravṛddhiharayoga). A young physician, called Rasāyana, is referred to as Paunarvasava in the Harṣacarita (ucchvāsa 5; see the translation of E.B. Cowell and F.W. Thomas, 143–144).