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18 CC I, 549 (a chapter of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā) and 559. Also regarded as a chapter of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya by P. Cordier (1896: 7). 19 See: Rasamūlikānighaṇṭu. 20 See: Sannipātanidānacikitsā by Bāhaḍa. 21 See: Bāhaṭagrantha. See also: Bāhaṭaśāstra. 22 This colophon is absent in Āṭhavale's edition of the Samgraha. 23 Many editions of the Rasaratnasamuccaya have a colophon, stating that Vāgbhaṭa, son of Simhagupta, was its author. 24 See on Sindhu and its inhabitants, the Saindhavas: N.N. Bhattacharyya (1991): 275; N.L. Dey (1979): 186; B.C. Law (1973): 344–346; S. Saxena (1995): 202–205. 25 Pratibhā is one of the characteristics of a person with an ārṣasattva in the Carakasamhitā (Śā.4.37). 26 Some Indian scholars (see, e.g., ABI 217) refer to this teacher as Avalokiteśvara. Other Indian scholars advanced that this Avalokita may not be a human teacher of flesh and blood, but the Bodhisattva of that name, which would mean that the author thus refers to his veneration for Avalokiteśvara (see R. Śāstrī, 1977: 638; K.R. Srikantha Murthy, 1995: X). 27 The text has subahubheṣaśāstravilocanāt. C. Vogel (1965: 7), who takes the compound as belonging to pituḥ (i.e., from my father), prefers another translation: “whose eye (vilocana) (represents) medical science in a very high degree”. C. Vogel seems to regard Indu’s explanation as supportive of this interpretation.