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Ca.Si.2.22 (galaśālūka); Jayadatta’s Aśvavaidyaka 2.9 and 17 (galaśālūka); Ca.Ci.12.75 (śālūka). 359 Singhal c.s.: swelling in the posterior part of the dorsum linguae. Gayadāsa reads adhi-jihvā. Cf. Su.Sū.24.9. Compare Ca.Ci.12.77 (adhijihvikā). Su.Ni.16.52 = Mādhavanidāna 56.43. 360 A.B. Taḷāviyā Bhāradvāj (1996): inflammation of the throat. Cakra (ad Ca.Ci.12.76) regards Caraka’s biḍālikā as identical with Suśruta’s valaya. 361 Singhal c.s.: some inflammatory lesion of the the throat. A disorder called balāsaka is mentioned in the Carakasaṃhitā (Sū.20.17). Balāsaka is also the name of an eye disease (Su. U.4.9cd). 362 Tentatively identified as chronic pharyngitis by Singhal c.s. 363 Tentatively identified as acute pharyngitis by Singhal c.s. A.B. Taḷāviyā Bhāradvāj (1996): a tumour of the throat. The number of diseases of the throat would become eighteen instead of seventeen by acknowledging vṛnda as a separate disease. Gayadāsa and Ḍalhaṇa regard vṛnda as a variety of ekavṛnda. See also Śrīkaṇṭhadatta ad Mādhavanidāna 56.47. 364 Singhal c.s.: probably some malignant lesion. A.B. Taḷāviyā Bhāradvāj (1996): a kind of tumour in the throat. 365 Tentatively identified as a polyp by Singhal c.s. A.B. Taḷāviyā Bhāradvāj (1996): a hard tumour in the throat. The Mādhavanidāna (56.49) reads galāyu. 366 Tentatively identified as a retropharyngeal abscess by Singhal c.s. 367 Singhal c.s.: quinsy. 368 Tentatively identified as acute laryngitis by Singhal c.s. 369 Singhal c.s.: a malignant lesion, probably carcinoma. A.B. Taḷāviyā Bhāradvāj (1996): a polypus in the throat. Compare Ḍalhaṇa ad Su.Sū.24.9: māṃsasaṃghāta = māṃsatāna. 370 Singhal c.s.: probably some form of malignancy with superadded secondary infection. Vidārikā is the name of a pramehapiḍakā and a kṣudraroga. 371 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 56.38–54. 372 Singhal c.s.: stomatitis. 373 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 56.55. 374 Su.Ni.16.66cd derives from Videha (see Śrīkaṇṭhadatta ad Mādhavanidāna 56.55). The subtype called mukhapāka is not acknowledged by Gayadāsa. Ni.16.66cd does not form part of the Mādhavanidāna. Compare on mukhapāka: Su.Sū.24.9.