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102 Not mentioned in *Carakasaṃhitā*, *Suśrutasaṃhitā* and *Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā*. See K.C. Dube (1978): identified as dementia. The description of the Niṣādas in Sanskrit literature is reminiscent of a tribal people (they are said to be cīravāsas or nagna, tṛṇavibhūṣaṇa). See on the Niṣādas: J. Charpentier (1920): 369–376; S.K. Chatterji (1974); S.A. Dange (1969): 53–61; Dowson; R. Fick (1974); Hopkins; V. Jha (1977); A.B. Keith (1976); A.A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith (1967); A.M. Shastri (1996): I, 206; S. Sörensen (1963); M. and J. Stutley (1977): 211; C. Tiwari (1963); Vettam Mani; H. Zimmer (1879): 38, 119. Their origin is described in the *Mahābhārata* (Śāntiparvan 59.9–97; ed. Poona), *Bhāgavatapurāṇa* (4.14), *Viṣṇupurāṇa* (1.13), *Matsyapurāṇa* (see H.H. Wilson, 1972: 84), *Padmapurāṇa* (see H.H. Wilson, 1972: 84). The *Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha* (U.7.28) has Kākhorda instead of Niṣāda; variants found in editions of the *Hṛdaya* are Kākhorda (accepted by the author of the *Kairalī* commentary) and Khākhoṭa (accepted by Śivadāsa, who interprets it as a sarīsrpa, i.e., a creeping animal). Compare Kaṅkhorda, found in the *Mahāmāyūrī* (see: Bower MS).