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227 Tentatively identified as parotitis by Singhal c.s. Identified as mumps by S. Śarmā (1994), N. Saxena (1995: 125), and A.B. Talāviyā Bhāradvāj (1996). Compare Mādhavanidāna 55.10; Śrīkaṇṭhadatta remarks that it is called galavaṭṭa in the vernacular. The presence of mumps in ancient Greece is known from an epidemic that was observed in the island of Thasos in about 410 B.C. (see Corpus Hippocraticum, Epidemics I.1 in É. Littré 2, 598–605; E. Ebstein, 1931; M.D. Grmek, 1991: 336; R. Hare, 1967: 122).