A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c35.39.2

v2.c35.39.2

The commentators therefore explain that the two types caused by vāta and pitta respectively are meant. 176 A.h.U.7.28ab = Ca.Ci.10.30cd. 177 A.h.U.7.29cd–30ab = Ca.Ci.10.41. 178 This verse is very close to Su.U.61.24cd–25ab. 179 A.h.U.7.33 = Ca.Ci.10.51. 180 A.h.U.7.34 = Ca.Ci.10.64. The Hṛdaya omits the bloodletting mentioned by Suśruta (U.61.41cd). 181 Cf. Ca.Ci.10.65. 182 Cf. Ca.Ci.10.66. 183 This is a new disease, absent from Caraka and Suśruta; the commentators are silent on this fact. The description of the Hṛdaya is quoted in the Madhukośa (ad Mādhavanidāna 59.99), but the disease is not accepted as one of the vartmarogas in Mādhava's nosological system. This explains its absence in many later texts, for example, Vangasena's treatise and the Bhāvaprakāśa. J. Jolly (1901) omits to mention it. Kṛcchronmīla heads the list of vartmarogas in the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.153cd–157ab); Ādhamalla regards it as identical with kuñcana, described in some other treatise (Mādhavanidāna 59.96 is quoted). Anantakumāra's Yogaratnasamuccaya (prose between 24.55 and 56) reproduces the list of twenty-four vartmarogas of the Hṛdaya, but has not exactly the same text, being, moreover, in prose; it quotes this list from Vāhaṭa and a Pāṭha-. Kṛcchronmīla is, as its name implies, characterized by difficulties in opening the eyes on awakening; one of its features is vartmastambha, which makes R.C. Choudhury (1992: 345) interpret it as blepharospasm. K.R.