A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s29.140

v3.c43.s29.140

Śārṅgadhara’s enumeration of sixty kṣudrarogas differs from the arrangement found in other treatises. Additions, in comparison with the Mādhavanidāna, are: kotha,¹⁰⁷⁸ rājikā,¹⁰⁷⁹ and rakasā;¹⁰⁸⁰ these disorders are also regarded as kṣudrarogas by Vāgbhaṭa. Mādhava’s eight types of visphoṭa and fourteen varieties of masūrikā, described in separate chapters of his Nidāna, form part of Śārṅgadhara’s kṣudrarogas, in agreement with Vāgbhaṭa again. Eleven kṣudrarogas from Mādhava’s list, which comprises a total of forty-two, are absent from Śārṅgadhara’s series, namely ajaga-