A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s16.t5: Date
A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s16.t5
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Though it has been claimed that nothing is known about the author’s time,²²¹ it is nevertheless possible to establish his chronology by taking into account that he must have lived in the same age or somewhat later than the author of the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā, because the examination of the pulse is mentioned by Dāmodara. Since Dāmodara, on the other hand, must be earlier than Virasimha who quotes him, he can be dated to the first half of the fourteenth century.²²² This is also the date proposed by P. Hymavathi, who arrived at his conclusion on quite different grounds.²²³
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Several medical authors bearing the name of Dāmodara are known. Unspecified authors of this name are quoted or referred to in Ananta’s Pratāpakalpadruma, Hamsarāja’s Bhiṣakcakracittotsava, Rāmeśvara Bhaṭṭa’s Rasarājalakṣmī,²²⁴ Revaṇasiddha’s
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Virabhaṭṭīya, Vācaka Dīpacandra’s Laṅghanapathanirṇaya,²²⁵ Viṣṇudeva’s Rasarājalakṣmī, Viṭṭhala’s Rasasindhu,²²⁶ and in two anonymous treatises, the Cikitsāsārasaṃgraha²²⁷ and the Ratnākarauṣadhayogagrantha.²²⁸
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A Dāmodara is mentioned as one of the promoters of āyurveda in the Vaidyaśāstrapravartakācāryānāmasamuccaya.
Cites (2)
- Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā — Śārṅgadhara (physician), Sanskrit
- Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha (Vaṅgasena) — Vaṅgasena, Sanskrit