A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c37.111

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930 Identified as gugguluśāka by Aruṇa and Hemādri. Cf. Kaiyadevanighaṇṭu 1.639: laṭvāka = guggulaka = vanyakusumbhajaśāka. The same as kusumbha (Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1977; P.V. Sharma, 1997; T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar, 1972). 931 The same as dhātakī (Aruṇa). The Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa and T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972) agree. 932 The same as dhātakī (Aruṇa and Hemādri). The Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa, Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977), and T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972) agree. Cf. A.s.Sū.16.29. 933 The same as atimuktaka (Aruṇa). The Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa, Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977), and T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972) agree. 934 The same as drākṣā (Aruṇa). The Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa, Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977), and T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972) agree. 935 The same as muraṅgī according to Aruṇa. Madhusrava is a synonym of madhūka and moraṭa according to P.V. Sharma (1997). Hemādri reads madhusravā, which he regards as denoting mūrvā (accepted by Bāpālāl Vaidya and in the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa). T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar read madhusravā and identify this plant as Maerua arenaria Hook.f et Thoms. Cf. A.s.Sū.16.7. Indu (ad A.s.U.10.28, 19.38, 22.19) regards madhusravā as a synonym of muraṅgī. 936 Identical with ativiṣā or prativiṣā (Candranandana). The same as ativiṣā (Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa; Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1977; T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar, 1972). Cf. A.s.Ci.8.58. 937 A variety of droṇapuṣpī, Leucas cephalotes Spreng. (P.V. Sharma, 1997). Identified as Anisomeles malabarica R.Br. ex Sims in the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa. Compare T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972). Candranandana (ad A.h.U.36.92) and Indu (ad A.s.U.42.108) read mahādroṇa and interpret it as śvetavaikunṭha. 938 The same as bṛhatī according to Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977). 939 Identified as Melia azedarach Linn. in the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa. The same as parvatanimba according to Śivadāsasena (ad Cakradatta, arśas 60). Regarded as identical with mahānimba by Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977). 940 A kind of guggulu according to the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa. The same as guggulu according to Śivadāsa (accepted by Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1977). Cf. A.s.U.49.249. 941 The same as śālmalī (Aruṇa and Hemādri). The Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa, Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977), and T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972) agree. 942 Of disputed identity. Indu (ad A.s.U.42.108) interprets it as maṇḍūkaparṇī (accepted by Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1977). The Kairalī remarks that it is either mauktika (of uncertain identity here) or brahmī. The Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa regards it as brāhmī. 943 The same as gandhārikā according to Aruṇa; identified as maṇṭaka by Hemādri. The same as māriṣa, Amaranthus blitum Linn. var. oleracea Duthie (compare WIRM I, rev. ed., 217–218: Amaranthus lividus Linn. = A. blitum Linn. = A. oleraceus Linn.), according to P.V. Sharma (1997). Identified as A. oleraceus Linn. in the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa. Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977) mentions A. blitum Linn. and A. mangostanus Linn. (absent from Hooker and WIRM). Compare T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972). 944 Regarded as identical with ajaśṛṅgī in the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa. Compare Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977). Compare Suśruta's meṣaviṣāṇānaman. 945 The same as śālmalī (Aruṇa). Identified as Asparagus adscendens Roxb. (compare WIRM I, rev.ed., 470–472: Asparagus racemosus Willd., called safed musalī in Hindī) by P.V. Sharma (1997). Regarded as Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. in the Aṣṭāngahṛdayakoṣa. Bāpālāl Vaidya (1977) mentions, next to A. adscendens and C. orchioides, Chlorophytum arundinaceum Baker and Chlorophytum tuberosum Baker as identifications.