A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c37.290

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341 C. Vogel, IL 314; earlier (1965: 15), this author assigned Kṣīrasvāmin to the second half of the eleventh century, as did P.V. Sharma (AVI 215). Winternitz (III, 412) places Kṣīrasvāmin in the eleventh century. 342 N.N. Das Gupta (1936/37): 154. 343 D.Ch. Bhattacharyya (1947b): 139. P.V. Sharma (1993: Intr. 33) regards N.N. Das Gupta's hypothesis worthy of consideration. 344 N.S. Mooss (1979): Intr. 11. See also Jejjaṭa. 345 N.S. Mooss (1979: 15–16) was in favour of accepting this tradition. He relates that the salutatory stanza in praise of Vāgbhaṭa and his two pupils is still employed during the performance of a Yogīśvarapūjā at the house of the aṣṭavaidya physicians of Pulāmantōḷ in Kerala, a ceremony conducted every month, on the Śukla Ekādaśī. The stanza, which does not specify whether the author of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya or Aṣṭāṅgasamgraha is meant, is often quoted in the secondary literature on Vāgbhaṭa, for example in Rudrapāraśava's upodghāta (IV) to ed. a of the Saṃgraha, Jyotiṣacandra Sarasvatī's upodghāta (10) to his ed. of A.h.U. with Śivadāsasena's commentary, and G. Hāldār's Vṛddhatrayī (45). 346 Indu refers to the author of the Hṛdaya as ācārya ad A.ś.Śa.3.37 and Ci.5.15cd–18ab. 347 See C. Vogel (1965): 14. 348 Indu refers to his teacher as asmadguravaḥ, while the Saṃgraha is simply called the śāstrakāra Vāgbhaṭa (ad A.s.Sū.1.1). 349 Rudrapāraśava (upodghāta 5 of his edition of the Aṣṭāṅgasamgraha with Indu's Śaśilekhā) regards Indu as a pupil of Vāgbhaṭa; P.K. Gode (1944g: 218–219) rejects this view. 350 P.K. Gode (1944g: 227–228) was inclined to identify him as Vāgbhaṭa II, the author of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya, who is later than the Vāgbhaṭa who composed the Aṣṭāṅgasamgraha. 351 See the notes on authorities and works quoted by Indu. 352 See: Niścalakara. Compare D.Ch. Bhattacharyya (1947b): 138–139. This evidence was dismissed by P.V. Sharma (AVI 216); his arguments were that Niścalakara does not mention Indu by name, nor refers to the Śaśilekhā; in addition, he was not convinced by the correspondences between Niścala's quotations and the readings found in the Śaśilekhā. Later, in the Introduction to his edition of Niścala's Ratnaprabhā, he acknowledged the genuineness of Niścala's references to Indu. 353 D.Ch. Bhattacharyya (1947b: 139) was convinced that Indu belongs to the eleventh century at the latest. G. Hāldār identifies Indu with Indumitra, the author of the Anunyāsa on Jinendrabuddhi's Kāśikānyāsa, and regards him as belonging to the tenth (Vṛddhatrayī 462) or tenth-eleventh century (Vṛddhatrayī 276); the NCC (I, 203) mentions Indu as the author of a commentary on Jinendrabuddhi's Kāśikāvivaraṇapañjikā or Nyāsa. P.K. Gode (1944g: 229) assigned Indu to a period between A.D. 750 and 1050. The NCC (II, 248) places him in about the seventh century. Indu's date is about A.D. 600 according to N.S. Mooss (1979: Intr. 17). 354 P.V. Sharma, Intr. (12) to his edition of the Aṣṭāṅganighaṇṭu; AVI 215–217; (1993): Intr. 40 (placed in A.D. 1225). 355 Ad A.s.Sū.2.17cd–18ab; the quotation is identical with Medinīkoṣa, śāntavarga 31. P.K. Gode (1944g: 221) was not convinced that the unspecified Koṣa, cited by Indu, is the Medinīkoṣa, since the later lexica draw freely on earlier ones or borrow from a common source. 356 C. Vogel (IL 347) places Medinī in the period 1200–1275, but he may be earlier and belong to the twelfth century (see P.K. Gode, 1944g: 221).