A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c35.18

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ical Research 43, 4, 1955, 723–747 (by the Liver Diseases Sub-committee); N.C. Nayak et al. (1972). 38 Both mother or wetnurse and child have to be treated. Compare Vaṅgasena, strīroga 354–359. 39 Cf. Kāśyapasaṃhitā, Sū.20. 40 Cf. Ca.Śā.8.56. 41 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: emaciation, marasmus. 42 Cf. Soḍhala, Gadanigraha, prayogakhaṇḍa, tailādhikāra 472–475; Vaṅgasena, jvara 781–783. 43 The commentators ignore this verse, also found in some editions of the Saṃgraha (see Hilgenberg and Kirfel 528) and in Vaṅgasena’s treatise (bālaroga 136). 44 The commentators are silent on this verse, which is also found in some editions of the Saṃgraha (see Hilgenberg and Kirfel 528) and in Vaṅgasena’s treatise (bālaroga 149). The Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.186) records dantaśabda as one of the children’s diseases. 45 Cf. Vaṅgasena, bālaroga 140. 46 Compare Vaṅgasena’s verses (bālaroga 141–144) on the ominous meaning of untimely teething. Akāladanta (untimely teething) is one of Śārṅgadhara’s children’s diseases (I.7. 186). 47 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: adenoids. A disease of this name is absent from Caraka- and Suśrutasaṃhitā. Compare the descriptions found in Mādhavanidāna (68.12–13) and Vaṅgasena’s treatise (bālaroga 103–104). Vaṅgasena appears to regard the disease as identical with tālupāka (see bālaroga 105), which is, however, a different disorder (see Su.Ni. 16.45). Śārṅgadhara (I.7.187) mentions tālukaṇṭa as one of the twenty-two children’s diseases;

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he regards vicchinna, not known from earlier treatises, as a children’s disease that is distinct from tālukaṇṭa. Aḍhamalla is of the opinion that vicchinna is identical with tālupāta; in support, he interprets A.h.U.2.63cd–65ab as the characterization of two disorders, tālukaṇṭa and tālupāta. The Hṛdaya, however, gives the pathogenesis of tālukaṇṭaka at U. 2.63cd–64ab and its tumors at U.2.64cd–65ab (tālunimnatā and tālupāta are obviously synonymous; see Mādhavanidāna 68.12–13). Tālupātana occurs instead of tālukaṇṭaka in Vṛnda’s Siddhayoga (66.24) and the Cakradatta (bālaroga 50); the verse describing it is for its remaining part identical with A.h.U.2.68; Śivadāsa remarks (ad Cakradatta, bālaroga 50) that tālupātana is identical with Vāgbhaṭa’s tālunimnatā and that the variant tālukaṇṭaka is known to him. 48 This name for this particular disease is not found in texts that are independent of Vāgbhaṭa. 49 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: pruritus ani, ulcer in the rectum. Cf. Su.Ni.13.57–58, where it is a kṣudraroga; Śārṅgadhara I.7.186 (a children’s disease). Anantakumāra (Yogaratnasamuccaya 21.490) reads pūtanā; the Saṃgraha has pautana. 50 Not occurring elsewhere as a name for ahipūtana. 51 Not occurring elsewhere as a name for ahipūtana. 52 Some editions have anāmaka. 53 The disease called anāmaka is found in the Cakradatta (bālaroga 11, 12, 14); the commentator Śivadāsa remarks that this disease (nirṇāmaroga) is also known as phuñjīkāroga (phuñjiyā in the vernacular).

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Nirnāmā and nirṇāmikā occur in the Vaidyarahasya (bālaroga 22 and 24), where the disorder is said to arise from the mother’s dohada. The Kairalī commentary (ad A.h.U.2.69–70) mentions a series of children’s diseases not described by Vāgbhaṭa: mukhadūṣikā, niśūlikā, viṣavajra, and kuṇḍala(ka); the verses on these diseases, quoted anonymously in the Kairalī, are identical with some stanzas of Anantakumāra's Yogaratnasamuccaya, quoted from the Prayogasiddhi and a tantrāntara (21.496, 499–500, 507–510) (niścūrikā instead of niśūlikā). 54 Absent from Caraka- and Suśrutasaṃhitā. 55 Cf. Su.Śā.10.39. 56 Cf. Su.U.27 to 37. See on this chapter: J. Filliozat (1937): 46–62 (edition, textcritical remarks and French translation: 48–59) and 124–132 (the Tibetan version). 57 Cf. Su.U.37.3–4. Śulapāṇi is one of Śiva's names. Guha is the same deity as Kārttikeya or Skanda. 58 See the Kairalī. 59 Not mentioned by this name in the Suśrutasaṃhitā, but identical with Skandāpasmāra (see A.h.U.3.9cd–11; Dalhaṇa ad Su.U.29.9). 60 Some editions of the Hṛdaya, as well as the Saṃgraha, read Meṣākhya or Meṣāsya. This graha is the same as Naigameṣa (see A.h.U.3.12–14). The Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.189–191ab) replaces Meṣa by Naigameya. 61 Replaced by Svagraha in the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.189–191ab); Āḍhamalla remarks that some regard him as identical with Skandāpasmāra. Śvagraha is not mentioned in the Suśrutasaṃhitā, but is known, for instance, to the Āpastambagṛhyasūtra (MW; compare PW).

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62 The same as Naigameṣa in the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Pitṛgraha is mentioned again at A.h.U.4.41–42. 63 Some editions read Dṛṣṭipūtanā; this reading is accepted by Śivadāsa and the author of the Kairalī. Adṛṣṭipūtanā is the same as Andhapūtanā (see A.h.U.3.23cd–25). 64 Also called Mukhamanditā (see A.h.U.3.26–27ab). 65 Not mentioned in the Suśrutasaṃhitā. 66 Cf. Su.U.27.4–5. 67 Cf. Su.Śā.10.51. 68 Cf. Su.U.27.8. See A. Kumar (1994: 292–293) on the differences between the descriptions of Suśruta and Vāgbhaṭa; A. Kumar interprets the syndrome of the Hṛdaya as the encephalitic form of poliomyelitis. See on the compound baddhamuṣṭiśakṛt: J. Filliozat (1937): 48. 69 Śivadāsa says that Skandāpasmāra is the same as Viśākha. Cf. Su.U.27.9. 70 Cf. Su.U.27.16. 71 I.e., Śvagraha. A. Kumar (1994: 299) regards the symptoms as very close to rabies. 72 See A. Kumar (1994: 298–299), who regards the disorder as a respiratory infection with parenteral diarrhoea. 73 Cf. Su.U.27.10. 74 Cf. Su.U.27.12. 75 Cf. Su.U.27.14. 76 Cf. Su.U.27.13. 77 Cf. Su.U.27.15. 78 Cf. Su.U.27.11. 79 A. Kumar (1994: 301) suggests that the symptoms resemble those of abdominal tuberculosis. 80 Cf. Ca.Ni.7.15; Su.U.60.5. 81 Cf. Ca.Ni.7.15; Ci.9.22–23.