A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c37.79

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703 P.V. Sharma (1968): 52. 704 See P.V. Sharma (1968): 7, 9–10, 13, 50–51, 83. 705 AVI 168. P.V. Sarma (1968): 44. 706 P.V. Sharma (1968): 49. 707 P.V. Sharma (1968): 49. 708 P.V. Sharma (1968): 49. 709 P.V. Sharma (1968): 49. 710 P.V. Sharma (1968): 60. 711 P.V. Sharma (1968): 63. 712 P.V. Sharma (1968): 63. 713 P.V. Sharma (1968): 72. 714 P.V. Sharma (1968): 72. 715 P.V. Sharma (1968): 72. 716 P.V. Sharma (1968): 72. 717 AVI 168. P.V. Sharma (1968): 65–66. 718 P.V. Sharma (1968): 65: this ritual is also described in the Kāśyapasamhitā and Bāṇa’s Kādambarī. 719 P.V. Sharma (1968): 66. 720 P.V. Sharma (1968): 67. 721 P.V. Sharma (1968): 70. 722 AVI 169. P.V. Sharma (1968): 72. 723 AVI 169. P.V. Sharma (1968): 71. 724 AVI 169. 725 AVI 169. P.V. Sharma (1968): 73. 726 See A.s.Ci.2.87 and 23.65 (kastūrī); U.49.258: darpa (= kastūrī) is one of the fragrant substances judged by the gods as being inferior to guggulu. Cf. A.h.Sū.3.11; Ci.21.77. P.V. Sharma (AVI 369) says that musk began to be used in the Gupta period. He refers to Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita and Varāhamihira’s Bṛhatsamhitā as the earliest texts to mention the substance. A problem P.V. Sharma fails to notice is the presence of kastūrī, which may be musk, in the Carakasamhitā (Ci.28.152). 727 AVI 167. P.V. Sharma (1968): 24, 73. 728 AVI 169. P.V. Sharma (1968): 73. 729 AVI 169. P.V. Sharma (1968): 74, 152, 354. 730 AVI 169. P.V. Sharma (1968): 74. 731 The same as kavaka = bhūsphoṭa, i.e., a mushroom, according to Indu. 732 The same as ātmaguptā (Indu). 733 Synonyms given by Indu are bahupattrā, bhūdhātrī, tāmalakī. Compare Amarakoṣa 2.4.127: the same as tāmalakī, a plant name found in Carakasamhitā, Suśrutasamhitā and Hṛdaya. 734 The same as jīmūtaka (Indu). 735 Indu explains it as a kaṇṭakārikā with large fruits. 736 Identified as ikṣuraka (found in the Bṛhattrayī) by Indu. 737 Indu interprets it as bhārṅgī. 738 The same as samaṅgā (found in the Bṛhattrayī) according to Indu. 739 A synonym of śrīvāsa (Indu). 740 The fruit of madana (Indu). Compare the gāla of the Hṛdaya. Madana is common in the Bṛhattrayī.