A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s32.t4: Date
A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s32.t4
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The Madras MS of the Parahitasamhitā is written in nandināgarī, ¹⁴⁷² a type of script that was in common use during the time of the western Cālukyas, the Reḍḍi kings of Koṇḍavīḍu ¹⁴⁷³ and the earlier dynasties of Vijayanagar rulers; it went out of fashion after the sixteenth century. ¹⁴⁷⁴ Hence the MS was copied in the fifteenth or sixteenth century and the text may belong to the fifteenth century. This conclusion is corroborated by the absence of phirangaroga from the Parahitasamhitā, ¹⁴⁷⁵ a disease described for the first time in the Bhāvaprakāśa, which dates from the sixteenth century. ¹⁴⁷⁶
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¹⁴⁷² [Text of note 1472]
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¹⁴⁷³ [Text of note 1473]
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¹⁴⁷⁴ [Text of note 1474]
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¹⁴⁷⁵ [Text of note 1475]
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¹⁴⁷⁶ [Text of note 1476]