A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s8.t1.4

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The Uḍḍīśatantra, sometimes ascribed to Rāvaṇa, has a chapter (16), called grastabālacikitsā, which deals with the same subject as Rāvaṇa’s Kumāratantra. 574 The same applies to a chapter (pūrvārdha 41), entitled Bālacikitsā, of the Īśāna(śiva)gurudevapaddhati, 575 and to a chapter (11) of Nārāyaṇa’s Tantrasārasaṃgraha. 576 The latter work describes three series of grahīs, who attack the child on the first to tenth day, 577 in the first to twelfth month, 578 and in the second to seventeenth year. 579 Three related series of names occur in a chapter (299), entitled bālagraharabālatantra, of the Agnipurāṇa, 580 and in Anantakumāra’s Yogaratnasamuccaya. 581 Elaborate descriptions of some demons preying upon children are found in Kalyāṇa’s Bālatantra. Śālīnātha’s Rasamañjarī contains a Bālatantra that is related to Rāvaṇa’s Kumāratantra.