A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s2.41

v3.c43.s2.41

Thirdly, the presence of the disease called (yoni)kanda (1392), described for the first time in the Mādhavanidāna, though the term is used in a different sense in the Ratnamālā. The word vradhna as a synonym opf vṛddhi (1415) is adduced by P.V. Sharma as indicating that the Ratnamālā is posterior to Vṛnda’s Siddhayoga, 303 but that argument is not compelling because Vṛnda (40.20) describes vardhma (= vradhna) as separate from vṛddhi, which would rather point to the posteriority of Vṛnda. Unconvincing too is P.V. Sharma’s claim that the last verse of the Ratnamālā imitates a stanza from Māgha’s Śiśupālavadha (2.112), 304 dating from the seventh century. P.V. Sharma’s arguments for regarding the Ratnamālā as posterior to the Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha should be regarded as tentative and doubtful. 305