A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c31.8

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142 Bhadraśaunaka is quoted. 143 Bhadraśaunaka is quoted ad jvara 55. 144 Bhadraśaunaka is quoted ad Siddhayoga 62.15–16 and 75.2; Śaunaka is referred to in the commentary ad 82.27, where Vāgbhaṭa's verses on snehapāka (Ka.6), with their mention of Śaunaka, are quoted. 145 Ṭodara II (Śaunaka): 1.20 (a definition of śālākya) and 4.225 (a definition of koṣṭha, i.e., the viscera); IX (Bhadraśaunaka): 1.106–108 (parts of plants used in medicines; 1.107–108 are also found in the Gorakṣamata), 1.277–280 (the doses of errhines), 1.302 (the preparation of an alcoholic fluid called bhakta), 1.400 (the ratios of the ingredients in a medicated oil); IX (Śaunaka): 1.123 (the preparation of a peyā, yūṣa, etc.), 1.349–351 (the administration of āścyotana, i.e., eyedrops, and the number of drops required, dependent on the aim and the disease present), 1.395–396 (rules concerning the preparation of prasāriṇyāditaila). 146 Bhadraśaunaka is quoted: 4.21ef-26ab; this formula is, without a reference to its source, also found, but partially only, in the Yogatarangiṇī (3.22). 147 P. Cordier (1903a): 614: mentioned as Śonaka. 148 A dānamantra, attributed to Śaunaka, to be recited against pāṇḍuroga. 149 CC: not recorded. 150 Yogatarangiṇī 3.22 (see the Hindī commentary of ed. a). 151 Ṭodara IX: 1.310–311 (on the alcoholic preparations called śītarasika, sīdhu, madhvāsava and maireya). 152 Compare Ca.Śā.6.21 and Bhela Śā.4.30, Bhela Sū.9.7cd and 9cd. The question whether or not Śaunaka and Bhadraśaunaka are identical is discussed by Sūramcandra (I, 245–246). The issue becomes complicated if one assumes, as Sūramcandra does, that Śaunaka and Bhadraśaunaka hold two different views on the best drug for use in an āsthāpana (Ca.Si. 11); Sūramcandra, however, is mistaken in interpreting kaṭuka (Ca.Si.11.9) as the name of a plant (see the Gulabkunverba translation, as well as the renderings of Kaviratna and P.V. Sharma). Vaidya Bhagwan Das and Lalitesh Kashyap (Ṭodara's Āyurvedasaukhya II, Intr. 5) ascribe to both Bhadraśaunaka and Śaunaka a śālākyatantra; O.P. Jaggi (IV, 21), H. Parāḍkar (17) and P.V. Sharma (AVI 155) do the same. 153 Gaṇanātha Sena (1924): I, 31; G. Mukhopadhyaya (HIM II, 477). These authors confused the issue by adopting the reading Mada- or Madraśaunaka on certain occasions. 154 Aruṇadatta (ad A.h.Ka.6.15–16) calls him a tantrakṛt. The Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram records a medical Śaunakasamhitā (Nr. 946). 155 Gaṇanātha Sena (1924): I, 30–31. Gulabkunverba I, 146. Jaggi IV, 21. S.K. Mishra (1992): 313. Ṭodara's Āyurvedasaukhya II, Intr. 5. 156 See Dalhaṇa's remark ad Su.U.1.4cd-5ab. 157 The quotations cover a wider range of subjects than those belonging to śālākya. See also Gaṇanātha Sena (1924): 31; R.C. Choudhury (1992): 343. 158 See on Śānāq and his works: W. Ainslie (1826): II, 507; W. Cureton (1841): 108–109; J. Jolly (1914); M.S. Khan (1979) and (1981); M. Levey (1966); A. Müller (1880): 477–479 and 501–544 (extracts from the Arabic text with German translation); J. Ruska (1932); W. Schmucker (1975); F. Sezgin (1970): 187–197; M.Z. Siddīqī (1959): 39–40; M. Stein-schneider (1871): 347–348; B. Strauss (1934) (reviewed by J. Filliozat, JA 1936, 173–174); M. Ullmann (1978): 20; R.L. Verma (1992): 471–472 and 474; Winternitz III, 135, 512, 543.