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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s14: Avadhānasarasvatī

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s14

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Avadhānasarasvatī

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Avadhānasarasvatī,²⁰ of Atri- or Ātreyagotra, a resident of Makṣikāranya in Tuṇḍīramaṇḍala,²¹ son-in-law of Kāmeśanātha who was the son of Ekāmranātha,²² and father of Veṅkaṭeśa,²³ wrote (1) the *Praśastauṣadhasaṃgraha*²⁴ and (2) a (Vaidya)śataślokī.²⁵

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The *Praśastauṣadhasaṃgraha*²⁶ is a collection of recipes in 120 verses. The arrangement of the diseases and some other topics is as follows: jvara (2–3), raktapitta (4), pradara (5), asthisruti in women (6),²⁷ kāsa, śvāsa and hīdhmā (7–9), kṣaya (10–11), arocaka (12), vamī (13), mūrchā (14), tṛṣṇā (15), saṃnyāsa (16–17ab), arśas (17cd–19), udāvarta (20), atisāra (21–22), grahaṇī (23–24ab), agnimāndya (24cd), viṣūcī (25), prameha (26–27), mūtrakṛcchra (28), pramehapīṭikā (29), aśmarī and śarkarā (30), somaroga (31), vidradhi (32), stanavidradhi (33), vṛddhi (34–36), raktagulma (37), śūla (38), udara (39), pāṇḍuroga (40), kāmalā (41), śotha (42), visarpa (43), masūrikā (44), śītapitta (45), kuṣṭha (46–47), śvitra (48), kṛmi (49), vātavyādhi (50–51), pittavikāra (52–53), kaphavikāra (54), vātarakta (55), āvṛti (56–57),²⁸ sthaulya (58), vandhyātva (59), garbhiṇīroga (60–61),²⁹ bālagrahas (62–63), bhūtas (64), unmāda (65), apasmāra (66), netraroga (67–70), karṇaroga (71–73), nāsāroga (74), oṣṭharoga (75), gaṇḍamālā (76), dantaroga (77), jihvāroga and tāluroga (78), mukharoga (79), śiroroga (80–81), vraṇa (82–83), sadyovraṇa (84–85), bhaṅga (86), bhagandara (87), granthi (88), ślīpada (89), arbuda (90), vraṇa (99), nāḍīvraṇa (92), kṣudraroga (93–94), upadaṃśa (95), yoniroga (96), sthāvaraviṣa (97), jaṅgamaviṣa and sarpaviṣa (98–100), kīṭaviṣa (101), vṛścikaviṣa (102–103), lūtāviṣa (104), unduruviṣa (105), alarkaviṣa (106), nakhadantaviṣa (107), vyaṅga and lāñchana (108), koṭha (109), vājīkaraṇa (110–112), rasāyana (113–115), general prescriptions (116–118).

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This order does not agree with that of the *Mādhavanidāna*, but may have been influenced by the arrangement found in the works ascribed to Vāgbhaṭa.

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The *Śataślokī* is described as a short treatise of 126 verses on simple ways of curing diseases³⁰ or as a manual of materia medica.³¹

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Since Ekāmranātha lived in the fourteenth century, Avadhānasarasvatī can be assigned to the later part of the same century or the beginning of the fifteenth.³²

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