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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s24.t2: The author

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s24.t2

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The works attributed to Madanapāla were probably not written by this person of royal lineage himself, but under his patronage by authors who are only partially known. One of these was Viśveśvara Bhaṭṭa (1360–1390),⁸³⁷ who composed the *Madanapārijāta*, a treatise on dharmaśāstra, sometimes ascribed to Madanapāla,⁸³⁸ and the *Mahārṇava*.⁸³⁹ This Guṇākara Viśveśvara, son of Vācaspati (author of the *Ātaṅkadarpaṇa* on the *Mādhavanidāna*), may have composed the *Madanapālanighaṇṭu* or have assisted Madanapāla in writing it.⁸⁴⁰

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The genealogy of Madanapāla can be reconstructed from verses at the end of the *Madanavinoda*.⁸⁴¹ Madanapāla was a younger brother of Sahajapāla; both were

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sons of Sādhāraṇa,⁸⁴² son of Hariścandra, son of Bharahapāla,⁸⁴³ son of Ratnapāla. Madanapāla was the father of two sons, who are both credited with a medical treatise; a paediatric text, *Śiśurakṣāratna*,⁸⁴⁴ is ascribed to the elder, Pṛthvīmalla, and the *Mahārṇava*⁸⁴⁵ to the younger, called Māndhātṛ. The descent of Madanapāla is confirmed by the introductory verses of the *Śiśurakṣāratna* where, however, Sahajapāla has remained unmentioned.⁸⁴⁶ The genealogy can be supplemented by data from the *Rasaratnapradīpa* by Rāmarāja, son of Ratnapāla, a descendant of Madana. The introductory verses of this treatise state that Madana, son of Sādhāraṇa, son of Haricandra, had two elder brothers, Lakṣmaṇasiṃha, the eldest, and Sahajapāla.⁸⁴⁷

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Madanapāla belonged to the family of Ṭāka or Ṭākā kings,⁸⁴⁸ who ruled in Kāṣṭhā⁸⁴⁹ on the Yamunā, to the north of Delhi.⁸⁵⁰ Madanapāla’s viruda was kaṭāramalla.⁸⁵¹

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