A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.188

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421 Cf. Ca.Ka.7.72. Compare on sauvīraka: Su.Sū.45.213. 422 Cf. Ca.Ka.7.73. Compare on tuṣodaka (= tuṣāmbu): Su.Sū.45.213. 423 Cf. Ca.Ka.7.66–68. 424 Cf. Ca.Ka.7.15–17ab. 425 The recipe is called abhayāmodaka in another treatise according to Cakra. 426 Cf. Ca.Ka.9. 427 Cf. Ca.Ka.8. 428 Cf. Ca.Ka.10. 429 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.196–216. Suśruta describes seven means of purifying (prasādana) polluted water (45.17); Suśruta mentions the gem called gomeda among these means; compare the water-clearing gem, udakappasādaka maṇi, of the Milindapañha; see on this subject: I.B. Horner, 1963, 47–48), five means for preventing contact of the water vessel with the earth (45.18: nikṣepaṇa; see Dalhaṇa’s explanations of the terms used), and seven ways of cooling water (45.19; śitīkaraṇa). 430 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.217–224. 431 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.225–228. Suśruta distinguishes seven (Sū.45.83), Caraka four types (Sū. 27.228). See on dadhi and related substances: G.J. Meulenbeld (1974): 468–469. 432 See Su.Sū.45.85 on the differences between takra and ghola. Cf. Ca.Sū.27.229. See on takra and related substances: G.J. Meulenbeld (1974): 465–467. 433 Called takrapiṇḍaka in the Carakasaṃhitā (see Cakra ad Ca.Sū.27.236). 434 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.234cd–235ab. 435 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.230. 436 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.231–234ab. 437 Ten years old ghee according to Dalhaṇa. 438 Ghee which is eleven to a hundred years old. 439 Ghee, older than one hundred years. A late seventeenth-century traveller in India, Fryer, speaks of tanks of ghee, four hundred years old, in the Deccan; this ghee, of a high price, was regarded as of great medicinal value (see W.H. Schoff, 1974: 177). 440 These verses are ignored by Cakra; they were not explained in the commentaries consulted by Dalhaṇa, but read nonetheless by many physicians. 441 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.286–294. 442 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.243–246. 443 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.249. Su.Sū.45.142cd = Ca.Sū.27.249ab. 444 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.247–248. 445 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.238ab; Kṣirasvāmin ad Amarakoṣa 2.4.164. See on this subject: L. Gopal (1964): 59–60. See on the varieties of cane mentioned by Suśruta: N. Deerr (1949): 16; *Y.C. Roy (1916). 446 See on sugarcane chewing: O. von Hinüber (1971): 100. 447 See on the sugarcane press: K.T. Achaya (1994): 112–113; L. Gopal (1964): 60–61; O. von Hinüber (1971): 101–103; S. Pruthi (1995): 11–14. 448 Cf. Ca.Sū.27.237–238ab. 449 Phāṇita is of a viscous consistence (tantulībhāva; see Cakra ad Ca.Sū.27.239 and Su.Sū. 45.159). Dalhaṇa says that it is the same as kṣudraguḍa, commonly called kākavī. See on kṣudraguḍa: Ca.Sū.27.239. See on phāṇita and kṣudraguḍa also: L. Gopal (1964): 61, 63–64; O. von Hinüber (1971): 103, 106–107; Om Prakash (1961); S. Pruthi (1995): 4.