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85 Compare Su.Ni.6.14 and Ca.Ci.14.144–147 (dantayariṣṭa), 6.15 and Ca.Ci.14.138–143 (a-bhayāriṣṭa); see Ḍalhaṇa’s comments ad Su.Ni.6.14 and 15. 86 Compare Ca.Ci.1².13–19 on bhallātaka preparations. 87 Cf. Ca.Ci.26.59–76. See on the history of bladder stones and lithotomy: E. Desnos in L.J.T. Murphy (1972): 90–123; H. Ellis (1969); E. Gurtl (1898): 70–71. 88 The Hippocratic physicians did not practise this operation themselves (the Hippocratic oath forbade the intervention), leaving it to specialists; see on this subject: L. Edelstein (1943): 24–29; S. Nittis (1939). 89 An instrument called agravaktra is mentioned, as well as a catheter (puṣpanetra). See on lithotomy in classical antiquity: E. Desnos in L.J.T. Murphy (1972): 24–25; A. Krug (1993): 82–83; J.S. Milne (1907): 40–43, 146–149; Th. Puschmann (1966): 116; the operation is described by Celsus (De medicina VII.26). 90 Bhishagratna: urethra. Singhal c.s.: trigonum of the bladder 91 Any unnecessary incision in the bladder is meant (see 7.33). 92 See Su.Ni.4. Cf. Ca.Ci.12.96–97. See on bhagaṇdara and its treatment in Pali literature: Jyotir Mitra (1985): 351–352; K.G. Zysk (1991): 114–116, 121–122. 93 Compare Su.Ni.5.13, which agrees with Su.Ci.8.3. 94 See Su.Ci.1.8. 95 Plough-shaped (Ḍalhaṇa); curvilinear (Bhishagratna); plough- or T-shaped (Singhal c.s.). 96 A curvilinear incision with one arm longer than the other (Bhishagratna); T-shaped or T-like (Singhal c.s.). 97 Shaped like a cross (Bhishagratna); circular (Singhal c.s.). Ḍalhaṇa says that sarvatobhadra is a particular mode of sitting (āsana), like that called paryaṅkikā or maṇḍalāṅkuśa. 98 Longitudinal (Bhishagratna); semicircular (Singhal c.s.). Ḍalhaṇa gives a series of explanations of the term. See the definitions of the four terms, lāṅgalaka, etc., as quoted by Ḍalhaṇa from some other treatise. 99 See Su.Ci.4.28. 100 One of the recipes is called syandanataila (Ci.8.50–52). 102 Compare Su.Ni.5. 103 Cf. Su.Ni.5.3. Su.Ni.9.3 adds moral transgressions and bad actions in previous lives to the list of causes. 104 Cf. Ca.Ci.7.82–83. 105 The Suśrutasaṃhitā is the earliest work to mention this medicinal plant, the source of chaulmoogra oil, usually identified as one or more species of Hydnocarpus: H. kurzii (King) Warb. (= H. heterophylla Kurz, non Blume = Taraktogenos kurzii King) and H. pentandra (Buch.-Ham.) Oken = H. laurifolia (Dennst.) Sleumer = H. wightiana Blume. Formerly (e.g., in DWH I, 142–148), tuvaraka was erroneously identified as Gynocardia odorata R.Br. (see Dharmendra, 1947; WIRM IV, 280). See on tuvaraka: R.E. Emmerick (1984b): 101–104 and (1986a): 191–192; F.J. Mouat (1854). Two Khmer sculptures in low relief, dating from the reign of Jayavarman VII (twelfth century), may show patients with symptoms due to leprosy, as well as a vessel with Hydnocarpus grains (see G. Coedès, 1947: 188–190). 106 Cf. Ca.Ci.7.144–150. 107 Cf. Ca.Ci.7.140–143. 108 Cf. Ca.Ci.7.50–53. 109 Cf. Ca.Ci.7.84–96 and 122–125ab.