A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.356

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1 Cf. Ca.Ci.25. 2 Compare the nija and āgantu types of Ca.Ci.25. 3 Many kinds of trauma are enumerated. Cf. Ca.Ci.25.7. 4 After seven days according to Ḍalhaṇa. 5 Cf. Ca.Ci.25.8–9. 6 See Su.Sū.21.28. 7 Ḍalhaṇa explains vicūrṇana as change of colour (vivarṇana). 8 Cf. Ca.Ci.25.11–16. 9 Compare the thirty-six procedures (upakrama) of the Carakasaṃhitā (Ci.25.39–43). 10 Gayadāsa omitted pācana from the list according to Ḍalhaṇa. 11 Ḍalhaṇa apparently regarded vyadhana and visrāvaṇa as two separate items, which necessitated the omission of one of the procedures listed; Ḍalhaṇa decided that pratisāraṇa should not be counted separately. It is clear that vyadhana and visrāvaṇa belong together because visrāvaṇa has already been mentioned; this view is supported by Su.Ci.1.44. 12 Compare Caraka’s avapīḍana (Ca.Ci.25.40). 13 Compare Caraka’s mārdavakara type of dhūpana and ālepana (Ca.Ci.25.42). 14 Compare Caraka’s kāṭhinyakara type of dhūpana and ālepana (Ca.Ci.25.42). 15 Compare Caraka’s lomarohaṇa (Ca.Ci.25.43). 16 Jejjaṭa omitted this item from the list according to Ḍalhaṇa. 17 Compare Caraka’s patracchādana (Ca.Ci.25.41). 18 See Su.Sū.25. 19 See Su.Sū.14 (śoṇitasthāpana), 11 (kṣārakarman), 7–8 (yantra and śastra), and 19 (rakṣāvidhāna), 18 (bandhavidhāna). 20 Actually, this series consists of twelve items. 21 See Su.Sū.17. 22 I.e., vāta, pitta, kapha, blood, a combination of these, and exogenous factors. 23 I.e., the skin, muscular tissue, sirās, snāyus, sandhis, bones, the trunk and its contents (koṣṭha), and the marmans. 24 I.e., the symptoms caused by vāta, pitta, kapha, a combination of doṣas, and exogenous factors. Blood is not separately mentioned, because the symptoms are like those of pitta. 25 These factors are the patient, the physician, the physician’s attendant, and the medicine. 26 Sixteen complications are referred to at Ca.Ci.25.119. 27 Su.Ci.2. 28 See on the āyurvedic treatment of wounds: *P.J. Deshpande and J.D. Gode (1965); P.J. Deshpande, S.N. Pathak and P.S. Shankaran (1965); I.S. Rao and P.J. Deshpande (1968). 29 Ḍalhaṇa says that the chinna and bhinna types are caused by a weapon with an edge or blade, the viddha type by a weapon with a small tip or point, the remaining types by stones (pāṣāṇa), clubs (laguḍa), etc. See the descriptions of the types in the text of the Suśrutasaṃhitā.