A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s2.37

v3.c43.s2.37

A work called Ratnamālā that may be Mādhava’s lexicon is quoted by a Kaumudīkara who was one of Rāyamukuṭamaṇi’s sources.²⁹¹ The Ratnamālā may have been known to Vijayarakṣita who quotes it without specifying the source;²⁹² Vācaspati’s commentary on the Mādhavanidāna contains the same quotation, adding that it is taken from the Abhidhāna,²⁹³ which indicates that it may be different work, whether earlier or later than the Ratnamālā. According to T. Chowdhury’s note to his edition of the text, the work is also quoted in Yādavaprakāśa’s Vaijayantī (eleventh century), Kṣīrasvāmin’s commentary on the Amara koṣa, composed in the first half of the twelfth century,²⁹⁴ and the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu. A Nāmanighaṇṭu by Mādhava, quoted by Devarāja Yajvan in his Niruktabhāṣya,²⁹⁵ may be the Paryāyaratnamālā.²⁹⁶