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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s21: Commentaries on the Rogaviniścaya or Mādhavanidāna

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s21

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Commentaries on the Rogaviniścaya or Mādhavanidāna

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The large number of commentaries on the Rogaviniścaya testifies to the fame this work acquired.

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The following commentaries are known or mentioned:

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1 Vyākhyāmadhukoṣa by Vijayarakṣita and Śrīkaṇṭhadatta.

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2 Ātaṅkadarpaṇa by Vācaspati.

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3 Rogaviniścayavivaraṇasiddhāntacintāmaṇi ¹¹³ or simply Siddhāntacintāmaṇi ¹¹⁴ by Narasimha Kavirāja, ¹¹⁵ assistant of Rāmakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa and son of Nīlakaṇṭha Bhaṭṭa. ¹¹⁶ Narasimha was the teacher of Vaidyacintāmaṇi, who lived in the eighteenth century. ¹¹⁷ Narasimha refers in the Siddhāntacintāmaṇi to his commentary on the Carakasamhitā, called Carakatattvaprakāśakaustubhaṭīkā, and frequently adduces Caraka in illustration of Mādhava's verses, whilst quotations from Suśruta are much rarer. ¹¹⁸

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¹¹³ Rogaviniścayavivaraṇasiddhāntacintāmaṇi

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¹¹⁴ Siddhāntacintāmaṇi

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¹¹⁵ Narasimha Kavirāja

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¹¹⁶ Nīlakaṇṭha Bhaṭṭa

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¹¹⁷ eighteenth century

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¹¹⁸ Suśruta

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Narasimha's Siddhāntacintāmaṇi is undoubtedly the same as the Siddhāntacandrikā by Narasimha Kavirāja, son of Nīlakaṇṭha Bhaṭṭa and pupil of Rāmakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa, mentioned by S. Dasgupta, ¹¹⁹ who claims that the work, though based on the Madhukoṣa, is an excellent commentary, containing much that is both instructive and new. Dasgupta was in error when supposing that probably the only MS available was the one belonging to the library of his family; an edition, planned by him, never appeared. Th. Aufrecht recorded a MS of an anonymous Siddhāntacandrikā on the Mādhavanidāna. ¹²⁰ P.V. Sharma discovered an additional MS of Narasimha's commentary in the Central Library of the Benares Hindu University. This MS, the first two parts of which are missing, was written in 1770 by one Jayacandradāsa, who belonged to the tradition of Narasimha. ¹²¹ P.V. Sharma ¹²² informs us that Narasimha criticizes the authors of the Madhukoṣa at many places and quotes the following authorities and works: Bhaṭṭāraka (Hariścandra), Bhoja, Cakra, Caraka, Gayin, Hārīta, Jejjaṭa, Kṣārapāṇi, Mahābhārata, Nimi, Sātyaki, Śrīdharasvāmin, Suśruta, Vāgbhaṭa, Vāpyacandra, Varāhamihira, Videha, Viṣṇudharmottara, Vṛddhakāśyapa, and Yaśodhara. The data available point to the eighteenth or the last part of the seventeenth century as the age of Narasimha.

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¹¹⁹ S. Dasgupta

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¹²⁰ Th. Aufrecht

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¹²¹ Jayacandradāsa

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¹²² P.V. Sharma

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4 Mādhavanidānatippaṇī by Bhāvamiśra. ¹²³ An anonymous work of the same title is also known. ¹²⁴

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¹²³ Bhāvamiśra

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¹²⁴ anonymous work

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5 Rugvinirṇayaṭīkā by Bhavānī Sahāya. ¹²⁵

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¹²⁵ Bhavānī Sahāya

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6 Nidānārthaprakāśikā by Candrakumāra Dāsa. ¹²⁶

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¹²⁶ Candrakumāra Dāsa

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7 Saralā by Chiranjivi Lall Sharma. ¹²⁷

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¹²⁷ Chiranjivi Lall Sharma

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8 Arthaprakāśikā by Gaṇeśa Bhiṣaj. ¹²⁸

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¹²⁸ Gaṇeśa Bhiṣaj

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9 a commentary by Īśānadeva. ¹²⁹

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¹²⁹ Īśānadeva

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10 Mādhavanidānasubodhinī by Jñānameru, pupil of Mahimasundaragaṇi of the Kharataragaccha, in his turn pupil of Sādhukīrtyupādhyāya. ¹³⁰

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¹³⁰ Jñānameru, Mahimasundaragaṇi, Sādhukīrtyupādhyāya

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11 a commentary by Kālidāsa. ¹³¹

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¹³¹ Kālidāsa

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12 a commentary on chapter two (on fevers) by Karmacandra, a Jain monk of the Kharataragaccha, who lived in the second half of the seventeenth or first half of the eighteenth century. ¹³²

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¹³² Karmacandra

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13 a commentary by Maitreyarakṣita. ¹³³

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¹³³ Maitreyarakṣita

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14 a commentary by Raiśarman, ¹³⁴ who may have been the elder brother of Vācaspati, the author of the Ātaṅkadarpaṇa on the Mādhavanidāna. ¹³⁵

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¹³⁴ Raiśarman

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¹³⁵ Vācaspati

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15 Vaidyamanoramā by Rāmakṛṣṇa, son of Gaurī and Nīlakaṇṭha. ¹³⁶

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¹³⁶ Rāmakṛṣṇa

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16 a commentary by Rāmanātha Vaidya. ¹³⁷

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¹³⁷ Rāmanātha Vaidya

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17 Śāradā by Śrīśāradācaraṇasena, a relatively modern commentary. ¹³⁸

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¹³⁸ Śrīśāradācaraṇasena

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18 a commentary by Sudhīra. ¹³⁹

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¹³⁹ Sudhīra

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19 a commentary by Sukīra. ¹⁴⁰

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¹⁴⁰ Sukīra

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20 Sudhālaharī by Umeśānanda Śarman, a modern commentary. ¹⁴¹

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¹⁴¹ Umeśānanda Śarman

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21 Subodhinī by Vādeva (Vāsudeva?) Māthura, consisting of short glosses on difficult verses of the Nidāna. ¹⁴²

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¹⁴² Vādeva (Vāsudeva?) Māthura

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22 an anonymous commentary called Bālabodhinī. ¹⁴³

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¹⁴³ Bālabodhinī

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23 an anonymous avacūri. ¹⁴⁴

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¹⁴⁴ avacūri

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24 an anonymous stabaka. ¹⁴⁵

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¹⁴⁵ stabaka

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Gaṅgārāma, a Jain monk, rendered the Mādhavanidāna into Hindī verse in 1821/22; this version, called Yatinidāna, contains additional material on diseases not described by Mādhava. ¹⁴⁶

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¹⁴⁶ Gaṅgārāma, Yatinidāna

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