A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c32.62

v2.c32.62

239 Anantakumāra’s work contains sixty-three quotations from Haricandra and one from a work called Vṛddhahariścandra; the latter is not known from other sources. All these quotations are in verse, which seems to indicate that they derive from Haricandra’s own samhitā or the revised Kharanādasamhitā. By far the greater part of the quotations consist of recipes, but two among them describe diseases: a type of fever called śītikā (9.530–534ab), and some varieties of śūla (16.507–510); some interesting recipes are those against jvaratīsāra (14.202–204 and 212) and jalakūrma (17.593–594), indicating that Haricandra was acquainted with those terms.