A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c35.40
A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c35.40
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201 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: purulent eyelids. Cf. Su.U.3.19. 202 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: thickened eyelids, blepharitis. Cf. Su.U.3.16. 203 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: children's ophthalmia. Cf. Su.U.19.9–10ab. Also regarded as a vartmaroga in the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.154). 204 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: constriction of the eyelid. This disease is the same as Suśruta's pakṣmakopa (U.3.29–30). Āḍhamalla (ad Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā I.7.155) is wrong in regarding pakṣmarodha as identical with Suśruta's vartmabandha (U.3.17). 205 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: a cyst near the inner canthus. This is a disease of the junctures (sandhi) of the eyes in the Suśrutasaṃhitā (U.2.8cd). It forms part of the vartmarogas in the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (I.7.156; see Āḍhamalla's remarks). Compare A.h.U.10.8ab. The name ala jī is applied to a number of different diseases. Compare the three types of the Bhelasaṃhitā (Sū.26.28ab). 206 K.R. Srikantha Murthy: cancer of the eyelid. Cf. Su.U.3.24. 207 Suśruta's number is twenty-one. The Hṛdaya adds ala jī, kṛcchronmīla and kukūṇaka. 208 Compare Daḷhaṇa ad Su.U.3.23, 25, 26. 209 Compare Daḷhaṇa ad Su.U.3.29–30; Su.U.16.3. 210 The same as pakṣmaśāta (cf. A.h.U.9.18cd). Śivadāsa reads pakṣmaśadana at A.h.U.8.8cd–9ab. 211 Cf. Su.U.15.29. 212 Cf. Su.U.14.5. 213 Cf. Su.U.13.16: kumbhīkinī (= kumbhīkā) should be scarified after excision. See also Su.U.13.17 on the surgical treatment of piḍakās. 214 Cf. Su.U.14.3. 215 Cf. Su.U.13.16: utsaṅginī should be scarified after excision. 216 The same as añjananāmikā. Cf. Su.U.14.6cd. 217 Cf. Su.U.14cd–15ab. 218 Cf. Su.U.13.10cd–12 and 15cd. 219 Cf. Su.U.13.16: śarkarā should be scarified after excision. 220 Cf. Su.U.13.14cd–15ab (vartmabandha). 221 Cf. Su.U.13.14cd–15ab (kliṣṭa). 222 Cf. Su.U.13.15cd. 223 Cf. Su.U.13.14cd–15ab. 224 Cf. Su.U.19.10. 225 The Suśrutasaṃhitā does not contain a chapter dealing with the treatment of these diseases systematically. 226 Cf. Su.U.13.16. 227 Cf. Su.U.13.3–9ab. 228 Cf. Su.U.13.9cd–10ab. 229 Cf. Su.U.13.13–14ab. 230 A synonym of vrīhimukha. 231 Cf. Su.U.13.17–18. 232 Asrotkliṣṭa (= raktotkliṣṭa) is probably described as utkliṣṭa in the preceding chapter. 233 Cf. Su.U.13.14cd–15ab. 234 The same as pakṣmaśāta. 235 Cf. Su.U.13.14cd–15ab. 236 Cf. Su.U.13.14cd–15ab.
Linked texts (4)
- Suśrutasaṃhitā — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit
- Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā — Śārṅgadhara (physician), Sanskrit
- Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit
- Bheḷasaṃhitā — Bheḷa, Sanskrit