A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s12.t2: Special features
A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s12.t2
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Special features
v3.c43.s12.t2.1
Noteworthy names of medicinal plants are: ādārī (4.96a); ajjhaṭā (4.78c); ārāmaśitalā (= kukkuṭamardaka, 4.97ab); brahmadaṇḍī (= avākpuṣpī, 5.59c); brāhmaṇayaṣṭikā (= padmā, 4.29b); cāṇakya (5.31a); ḍolāphala (1.23a); haladī (= haridrā, 4.18ab); huṃkāra (= bahukaṇṭaka, 6.53d);⁹ jalajambū (= nāḍeyī, 6.23cd); jharasī (4.98cd);¹⁰ jharjhara (6.50ab); kabarī (= kākolī, 1.13ab; = kacchurī (6.62c); khaṭvā (1.51d);¹¹ lavaṇī (= kaṅgunī, 4.53c; = tīkṣṇapattrā, 6.72a); mahākadamba (6.56a); maheraṇarasā (= śallakī, 6.56cd–57ab); nadīkāntā (= prācībalā, 5.61a);¹² nahikā (= śukanāsā, 4.105cd); papphaṇa (= vṛkadhūmaka, 6.50b); sālāma (5.31c); sidhraka (6.51); śṛṅgarīṭī (= poṭagalā, 1.19c); sthalaśṛṅgāṭaka (1.38d); talapoṭaka (6.64d); turyapiṇḍī (6.73a); vajravallī (= śṛṅkhalā, 5.59b); vāsantī (5.55a); vaṭapattrikā (= mohinī, 4.106); vātaṅginī (6.66); vijayā (= bhaṅgī, 4.74a); yakṣadṛś (= kuberākṣī, 4.28ab).¹³
v3.c43.s12.t2.2
Rudrākṣa is regarded as a synonym of pārāvata (2.19c).¹⁴ Musk (5.45) and civet (5.46ab) are known to the author of the *Ṣaḍrasanighaṇṭu*. Mercury is elaborately described (6.101–103), but opium is absent.¹⁵
v3.c43.s12.t2.3
The author At the end of one MS,¹⁶ the work is said to have been written by the elder brother of Caturaracita (-rakṣita?).¹⁷ More information about the author is not available.¹⁸