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³⁰ Compare Ca.Ci.26.129–131 and Cakra's comments; seventy-six is the number according to Videha; the Carakasaṃhitā follows Karāla in accepting a number of ninety-six. Siddha medicine also acknowledges a number of ninety-six eye diseases: forty-five due to vāta, thirty-one due to pitta, and twenty due to kapha (A.P. Iqbal, 1983: 452–453; the Akattiyarnayagaviti is quoted).