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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s10: Quotations

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s10

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Quotations

v3.c42.s10.1

An anonymous monograph on fevers, called Jvarasamuccaya, contains a considerable number of verses, attributed to Kāśyapa, which form part of the Kāśyapasamhitā. 88 The corresponding verses are not only found in those sections of the Kāśyapasamhitā which are old or at least based on an older version, but also in the Khilasthāna. The stanzas that cannot be traced can without hesitation be supposed to belong to Vātsya's revised version of the Kāśyapasamhitā.

v3.c42.s10.2

Some verses, quoted from the Bhālukitantra in the Madhukośa ad Mādhavanidāna 2.18–23 are found in the viśeṣakalpādhyāya of the Kāśyapasamhitā. 89 The verses describing the two samnipāta fevers called vidhu and phalgu (viśeṣakalpa 28cd–31ab) recur, without mention of a source, in Vaṅgasena's Cikitsāsārasaṃgraha (jvara 354–356) and Bhāvamiśra's Bhāvaprakāśa (cikitsā 1.459–461). Another stanza, said to be from Bhāluki in the Ātaṅkadarpaṇa ad Mādhavanidāna 2.24, forms part of the viśeṣakalpa chapter as well (218).⁹⁰

v3.c42.s10.3

The recipes of the pills against children’s diseases, attributed to Kāśyapa in the Bower MS (II.1010–1040), are supposed to have been taken from Khilasthāna 17 and 18 of the Kāśyapasaṃhitā by V.N. Pandey and A. Pandey,⁹¹ but cannot be traced in these chapters.

v3.c42.s10.4

The Kāśyapasaṃhitā is quoted in Dharmadatta’s Tridoṣasaṃgraha.

v3.c42.s10.5

R.C. Majundar’s claim⁹² that the Kāśyapasaṃhitā is quoted in the Bower MS and contains many quotations, not found elsewhere, from the most ancient works of the Ātreya school, is entirely unfounded.

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