A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c35.18.2

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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).