A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s30.3

v3.c42.s30.3

The *Vyākhyākusumāvalī*, as it is called in the introductory verses, or, for short, *Kusumāvalī*, is a highly valuable commentary, originally written by Śrīkaṇṭhadatta, ¹⁴⁴ and, later on, enlarged by Nārāyaṇa. D.Ch. Bhattacharyya ¹⁴⁵ was one of the first to observe that it had not generally been noticed that the *Kusumāvalī*, as it has come down, ¹⁴⁶ is actually a revision by a later author, as is evident from its concluding verses where Nārāyaṇa states to have completed Śrīkaṇṭhadatta’s commentary by adding notes from Dalhaṇa, etc. This statement led J. Jolly ¹⁴⁷ astray, who claimed that the *Kusumāvalī* could not have been written before the fourteenth century. ¹⁴⁸