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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s28: The author

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s28

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The author

v3.c42.s28.1

No particulars about Vṛnda are known, except that he may have lived in Eastern Bengal, 116 i.e., the country now called Bangla Desh. Niścalakara mentions that Vṛnda belonged to Varendra, a region referred to in the *Siddhayoga*. 117 Confusion on the identity of the author of the *Siddhayoga* was formerly created by Hoernle, who held the opinion that the treatise had been written by Mādhavakara, and claimed that the *Rogaviniścaya* and the *Siddhayoga* were clearly the two parts of a single work by one author. 118 Hoernle was unaware of the existence of the *Mādhavacikitsā*.

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P.V. Sharma 119 is convinced that there were two medical authors of the name of Vṛnda, namely the author of the *Siddhayoga* and a later one, called Vṛndakuṇṭha, who probably descended from Kārttikakuṇṭha. He regards the latter, quoted by Niścalakara and Śivadāsasena, as the author of a commentary on the *Carakasaṃhitā*, known as Vṛndaṭīkā or -ṭippaṇa, referred to by Āḍhamalla. 120 The evidence available is not strongly in favour of this hypothesis. Niścalakara and Śivadāsasena seem to refer indiscriminately to Vṛnda and Vṛndakuṇṭha, and Āḍhamalla mentions an author of glosses, who may well be the author of the *Siddhayoga* himself. A Vṛndaṭīkā is quoted in the *Bhāvaprakāśa*. 121

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G. Hāldār claimed that Vṛndakuṇṭha, also called Vṛndāvana, was the author of the *Vṛndasindhu* (i.e., the *Siddhayoga*, accompanied by a ṭippaṇa) and a work called *Padaviniścaya*. 122

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