A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s26.45

v3.c42.s26.45

The first verse is in praise of Śiva and Caṇḍī, Dhanvantari, Suśruta and other sages, and Ātreya. The author declares in the second verse that the order of the diseases in his work will agree with the scheme of (Mādhava's) *Gadavinīścaya* (i.e., the *Mādhavanidāna*), and that he is going to set forth therapeutic procedures from various sources,³ accompanied by remarks suited to the occasion.⁴ After twenty-seven more chapters, arranged for the greater part, in fact, along the lines of the *Mādhavanidāna*. The treatise ends with chapters on rasāyana (69) and vājīkaraṇa (70), a series of nine chapters on sneha, sveda, vamana, virecana, bastividhi, nīrūha, dhūmavidhi, nasya, and kavala, and three chapters on ariṣṭa, svastha, and various topics (miśraka).⁵ Usually, the chapters are almost exclusively on therapy, but some stray verses on symptomatology, etc., appear occasionally.⁶ Diseases not dealt with in earlier works are, however, fully described as to their pathogenesis, symptoms, etc.