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500 Cf. A.h.Śā.5.13ab. 501 Cf. A.h.Śā.5.12cd. 502 Cf. A.h.Śā.5.23. 503 Cf. A.h.Śā.5.22cd, 24–27. 504 A.s.Śā.10.12ab = Ca.I.11.4ab; 10.17cd = Ca.I.11.20ab; 10.19 = Ca.I.11.25; 10.21ab = Ca. I.11.3ab; 10.21cd = Ca.I.11.4ab; 10.24 = Ca.I.11.7. 505 See Su.Sū.28.5. 506 Cf. A.h.Śā.5.3–4ab. 507 The messenger should, for example, not be a pāṣaṇḍa (explained as a liṅgin by Indu). 508 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.2–16. The Hṛdaya lists inauspicious characteristics only; the inauspicious characteristics relating to astrology, mentioned in the Hṛdaya, occur in the Saṃgraha too. The auspicious signs of the Saṃgraha depend on an imagined relationship between the disease of the patient and certain other occurrences or are symbolic (cf. Su.Sū.29.20–22). 509 Atri and Dhanvantari are mentioned, as well as Diti, Aditi, Umā, Śacī, Devasenā, and other deities. See on the bamboo called kīcaka(veṇu), one of the objects present in the list: J. Przyluski (1936a): 322–329. Some other objects are: a parasol (chattra, an item of the aṣṭamaṅgala group), a mirror (ādarśa, an item of the aṣṭamaṅgala group), a banner (dhvaja, an item of the aṣṭamaṅgala group; the list of Ca.I.12.71cd–80ab has both suradhvaja, i.e., Indra's banner, and the raising, utkṣepana, of banners), aṣṭapada (explained as a chessboard, caturaṅgaphalaka, by Indu), bhadrapīṭha (explained as a catuṣkoṇa devāsana by Indu; the synonym bhadrāsana is often mentioned in aṣṭamaṅgala lists), a fish (matsya, an item of the aṣṭamaṅgala group), a conch-shell turning to the right (dakṣiṇāvartasaṅkha; the śaṅkha is an item of the aṣṭamaṅgala group), a lotus (abja; the synonym padma often turns up in aṣṭamaṅgala lists), the svastika (often found in aṣṭamaṅgala lists), a filled pitcher (pūrṇakumbha; the pitcher, kalaśa, belongs to the aṣṭamaṅgala group), the vardhamāna (an ornament, frequently occurring in aṣṭamaṅgala lists). See for lists of maṅgalas: P.V. Kane V.1, 621–622. See on the group of eight called aṣṭamaṅgala: A. Wayman (1989). 510 Cf. Ca.I.12.71cd–80ab; Su.Sū.29.27–31; A.h.Śā.6.30–39. 511 Cf. Ca.I.12.80–88. 512 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.17. 513 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.18–27. See Indu on the meaning of dīptā diś. 514 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.28. The sight of a śvapāka is one of the inauspicious signs making the physician leave the house of the patient; Indu explains śvapāka as referring to a caṇḍāla (a mixed caste of very low standing) or lubdhaka (a hunter); cf. A.h.Sū.29.14ab (śvapaca) and A.s. Sū.38.14 (śvapaca). See on śvapaca/śvapāka: H. Falk (1986): 19; A.M. Shastri (1996): I, 206; C. Tiwari (1963): 79, 86, 88, 89–90, 92. See on Caṇḍāla: C. Tiwari (1963; see index). 515 Cf. Su.Sū.29.50–52. The Saṃgraha attaches much importance to astrological considerations (grahas which are vakra, anuvakra, garhitasthānastha; see Indu's comments on these terms; Indu also enumerates the twelve signs of the zodiac). 516 I.e., dreams relating to the patient (Indu). 517 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.61–65ab. 518 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.40cd–48. 519 Cf. A.h.Śā.6.49–59ab.