A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.460

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231 See Dalhaṇa's comments. Bhela (Sū.26.1 and 9) also distinguishes six types of timira. 232 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.47–48ab. 233 This is the colour developing in the parimlāyin type of timira; parimlāyin means yellow (pīta) in this case according to Dalhaṇa (see his comments). 234 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.48cd–49; Bhela Sū.26.9. 235 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.50–51ab. 236 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.51cd–54. 237 N.K. Bidyādhar (1939: 561): day blindness. A.A.M. Esser (1934a: 807): xanthopsia and nyctalopia. Singhal c.s.: day blindness. A synonym of pittavidagdhadṛṣṭi is dināndhya (day blindness; see Su.U.17.12ab). 238 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.55cd–57ab. 239 N.K. Bidyādhar (1939: 561): night blindness. A.A.M. Esser (1934a: 807): hemeralopia. P. Ray c.s. (1980: 285): a type of night blindness. Singhal c.s.: night blindness. A synonym of kaphavidagdhadṛṣṭi is rātryāndhya (night blindness; see Su.U.17.12ab). Compare the description of night blindness in the Siddha medical text called Akattiyarṇayanaviṭi; the disorder is called mālaikkaṇ (see P.A. Iqbal, 1983: 456). See on night blindness in India: J. Annesley (1828): II, 134–141; N. Chevers (1886): 466–467; R.H. Elliot (1920): 75–86; H. Smith (1904a); K. Someswara Rao, N.K. De and D. Subba Rao (1953). See on night blindness in Greek medicine: M.D. Grmek (1991): 308 and 338. 240 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.57cd–58. 241 Singhal c.s.: haziness of vision. N.K. Bidyādhar (1939: 561): amblyopia, smoky vision. 242 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.59. 243 Singhal c.s.: retinitis pigmentosa, central opacity of the lens. N.K. Bidyādhar (1939: 561): retrobulbar neuritis. 244 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.60ab. 245 N.K. Bidyādhar (1939: 561): disease of the vitreous body, muscae volitantes. P. Ray c.s. (1980): 286: a type of nocturnal blindness. Singhal c.s.: maculopathy. 246 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.60cd–61ab. 247 N.K. Bidyādhar (1939: 561): glaucoma. A.A.M. Esser (1934a): 808: atrophy of the bulbus oculi. J. Jolly (1901): 113: atrophy of the eye. 248 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.61cd–62ab. 249 See Dalhaṇa on the causative factors. 250 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.62cd–63ab. 251 Cf. Mādhavanidāna 59.63cd–64. 252 See for a painting representing an Indian oculist and his instruments: D. Wujastyk (1995): 25. 253 See Su.U.15. 254 See Su.U.13. 255 See on the treatment of abhiṣyanda: R.C. Choudhury et al. (1977). See on the treatment of adhimantha due to vāta: B. Mukhopadhyay and K.R. Sharma (1992). 256 See on seka and āścyotana: V.K. Srivastava and K.R. Sharma (1998). 257 Su.U.9.18ab = Siddhayoga, netraroga 63. See Dalhaṇa on the way to prepare one of the ghees described (it should not contain a garbha; see Bhishagratna's note). Compare Siddhayoga, netraroga 64 and the Vyākhyākusumāvalī (netraroga 64 = Su.U.9.18cd–19ab); Cakradatta, netraroga 62 (= Su.U.9.18cd–19ab) and the commentary of Śivadāsa. 258 Su.U.9.20cd–21ab = Siddhayoga, netraroga 62. Dalhaṇa remarks that the aṇutaila mentioned at 9.22 is not the one described in the chapter on vātavyādhi, but the recipe of this 261 Traiphala- and tailvaka ghee are mentioned (10.14); cf. Su.U.17.5–6ab. Cf. Siddhayoga 61.66ab. The preparation of traiphalaghṛta is not described in the Suśrutasaṃhitā; see on this recipe: A.h.U.13.10cd–12ab. Cf. Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā II.9.66cd–71; Gadanigraha, prayoga-khaṇḍa, ghṛtādhikāra 86cd–88 and 212–217.