A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.711

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1 See on Amitaprabha: commentators on the Carakasaṃhitā. 2 NCC I, 373. STMI 24–25: ascribed to an Aruṇadatta who lived in the fifteenth century. Cat. Skt. MSS. N.-W. P. I, 594–595: Suśrutaṭīkā by Aruṇadatta; old and apparently correct; cannot be procured for copying. See on Aruṇadatta: commentaries on Vāgbhaṭa's works. 3 See: commentators on the Carakasaṃhitā. 4 CC: not recorded. The library of Kavīndrācārya is said to have contained a copy of Bhāskara's Pañjikā (ABI 200; AVI 210). The Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram records a MS of a ṭīkā by Bhāskara on the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi (Nr. 801) and a MS of a Bhāskarasiddhānta (Nr. 875); both are works on astronomy/astrology. 5 The apparent absence of quotations from Bhāskara led A.F.R. Hoernle (1906a: 286–287) to suppose that he is identical with Kārttikakuṇḍa. 6 See Ḍalhaṇa and Gayadāsa ad Su.Ni.13.37. 7 Ad Su.Sū.45.157. S. Dasgupta (1975: II, 428), for unaccountable reasons, considers the Bṛhallaghupañjikā to be Jejjata's commentary on the Suśrutasaṃhitā. 8 Ad Su.Sū.46.130–133, 141–142, 202–203ab. 9 Āyurvedaprakāśa 1.100: Bhāskara mentions substitutes for caṇakakṣāra, a substance used in the saṃskāra of mercury called niyamana. 10 Brahmavaivartapurāṇa, Brahmakhaṇḍa 16.8–22. See: S. Ārya (1984): 31; N. Gangadharan (1997): 64; Satyaprakāś 92–94; Sūramcandra I, 90–93; Vṛddhatrayī 5–7 and 323. Sūramcandra (I, 94) regards a medical treatise of the name Sāvitra, quoted by Ḍalhaṇa (ad Su.Ka.3.5), as a work of Bhāskara, which points to his being identical with the solar deity Savitar. 11 Bṛhannighaṇṭuratnākara 31. 12 The formula of bhāskaralavaṇa- or lavaṇabhāskara(cūrṇa) is found in many treatises: A.h.U.13.28–31ab; Āyurvedasaukhya IV: 4.96–104; Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī 10.79–87; Bhāvaprakāśa, cikitsā 6.61–68; Bheṣajasamhitā 7 (Nr. 55); Cakradatta, agnimāndya 39–47; Kusumāvalī ad Siddhayoga 6.33–42; Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā II.6.138–144; Vaṅgasena, ajīrṇa 64–71, etc. See also HIM I, 87–89. 13 The formula of udarkarasa (see S. Ārya, 1984: 31; HIM I, 89–90), gaganeśvararasa (Sahasrayoga 240), and rasasindūra (Harṣakīrti's Yogacintāmaṇi 241). 14 Pāradasamhitā 1.96; Rasaratnasamuccaya 1.2–5ab; Rasataraṅgiṇī 1.29–32. The Rasendracūḍāmaṇi (15.32) mentions Bhāskara's opinion on the purification of mercury. See on Bhāskara in the alchemical tradition: D.G. White (1996; see index). 15 P.V. Sharma's Intr. (XIV) to the 4th ed. of ed. cc of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. 16 See on jyotiṣa authors called Bhāskara: CESS A 4, 297–328; A 5, 254–263. 17 Ḍalhaṇa ad Su.Sū.46.130–133 and 141–142. 18 Ḍalhaṇa ad Su.Sū.46.202–203ab. 19 Atrideva (ABI 200) and G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 463) assign Bhāskara to the tenth or eleventh, P.V. Sharma (AVI 210) places him in the eleventh century. A.F.R. Hoernle inclined to the view that the commentator Bhāskara might be the same as a Bhāskarabhaṭṭa of whom is said in a Patna inscription that King Bhoja conferred the title of Vidyāpati on him (JRAS 1906a: 286–287); A.F.R. Hoernle (1907: 17) confused this Bhāskara with the author of the Śarīrapadminī (see on this work: A.F.R. Hoernle, 1978). G. Häldär (Vṛddhatrayī 463) was convinced that Bhāskarabhaṭṭa or Bhaṭṭabhāskara, who lived at Bhoja's court, wrote the Pañjikā and the Rasendrabhāskara.