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of the tenth day; she describes (13–16) that nāmakaraṇa takes place on the twelfth day. 20 The Hṛdaya refers to the chapter on prakṛtibheda, interpreted by Aruṇa as Śā.5, called vikṛtivijñānīya; the Kairalī refers the reader to Śā.3, called aṅgavibhāga, where the constitutions (prakṛti) are described. Cf. Ca.Śā.8.51. Compare Mrs.S. Stevenson (1971): 8. 21 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.60; Su.Śā.10.23. 22 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.61; Su.Śā.10.23. 23 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.62; Su.Śā.10.23. One of the materials is the horn of a rhinoceros. Some editions (and the translation of Hilgenberg and Kirfel) add a verse on some rituals: placing the child on the earth in the fifth month and the first feeding with solid boiled food (annaprāśana) in the sixth. The commentators ignore this stanza. See on annaprāśana; A. Hillebrandt (1897): 48–49; R.B. Inden and R.W. Nicholas (1977): 57–58; P.V. Kane II, 1, 256–258. 24 The correct place for piercing is the daivakṛtacchidra, described as being covered with a layer as thin as the jarāyu (identified as the sūtaśalka by Indu ad A.S.U.1.53; obviously, jarāyu means amnion here). See on very thin membranes: A. Wezler (1997). Compare on karṇavedha: Su.Sū.16. 25 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.65; Su.Śā.10.49. 26 Cf. Ca.Ci.30.283cd–286; Su.Śā.10.51cd. 27 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.64; Su.Śā.10.46. 28 Cf. Su.Śā.10.46–47 and 50. 29 This name is applied to an entirely different formula in Soḍhala’s Gadanigraha (prayogakhaṇḍa, ghṛtādhikāra 391–392). 30 Compare the formulae of Su.Śā.10.45 and 68–70. 31 Compare the formulae of Su.Śā.10.45 and 68–70. 32 See for more recipes improving the voice: Anantakumāra’s Yogaratnasamuccaya 21.566–567. 33 See on this subject: H. Joachim (1891); A. Kumar (1994). 34 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.54–55; Ci.30.229–251ab; Su.Śā.10.31–33. Compare Ca.Sū.19.3–4. 35 Cf. Su.Śā.10.34–36. 36 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.56; Ci.30.251cd–281. 37 Indu (ad A.S.U.2.17) and Śivadāsa mention atyaya, i.e., fatal (disorder), as a second name of kṣīrālasaka. The disease is not described in the Caraka- and Suśrutasaṃhitā; it is also absent from the Mādhavanidāna and the bālaroga chapter of the Cakradatta. Soḍhala (Gadanigraha, bālaroga 18–21ab) reproduces A.h.U.2.20–23ab. Vaṅgasena’s treatise contains a description of the disease (strīroga 352–353). The Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.185cd) distinguishes three varieties of kṣīrālasaka; Aḍhamalla gives the symptoms of vāta, pitta and kapha types. The Kāśyapasaṃhitā (100) is acquainted with kṣīrālasa as a disorder brought about by Revatī. Kṣīrālasaka also occurs in a quotation from the Hiraṇyākṣīya in Anantakumāra’s Yogaratnasamuccaya (21.406); its aetiology, pathogenesis and symptomatology are elaborately described in this treatise (21.387–396ab), in verses borrowed from the Kāśyapīya. The disease is interpreted as Milchtrommelsucht (J. Jolly, 1901: 61; Hilgenberg and Kirfel), milk-tympany (C.G. Kashikar, 1977: 75). A. Kumar (1994: 207–208) regards it as an acute gastro-enteritis, associated with dehydration (compare on dehydration: Su.Śā.10.42–43ab). I. Tripāṭhī remarks in his Hindī comments on the Gadanigraha that it resembles infantile cirrhosis of the liver. See on this disease: Indian Journal of Med-