A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s9.32

v3.c42.s9.32

The internal arrangement of the Kāśyapa-saṃhitā was originally the same as that of the Caraka- and Bhelasaṃhitā in containing a total of 120 chapters, distributed over eight sections with respectively thirty (Sūtrasthāna), eight (Nidānasthāna), eight (Vimānasthāna), eight (Śārīrasthāna), twelve (Indriyasthāna), thirty (Cikitsitasthāna), twelve (Siddhisthāna), and twelve (Kalpasthāna). The order of the last two sections is peculiar to the Kāśyapa-saṃhitā, for the Kalpasthāna precedes the Siddhisthāna in both Caraka- and Bhelasaṃhitā. The verses providing this information on the sections and number of chapters of each section, found in the last chapter of the Kalpasthāna,³³ add that the supplementary section, the Khilasthāna, which distinguishes the Kāśyapa-saṃhitā from the Caraka- and Bhelasaṃhitā, originally consisted of eighty chapters.