A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s1.t2: Commentaries on the Bhāvaprakāśa

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s1.t2

Language: English

Commentaries on the Bhāvaprakāśa

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Bhāvamiśra himself is reported to have written glosses (tippaṇī) on his Bhāvaprakāśa.44 These glosses contain interesting information of diverse kinds: explanations which sometimes refer to the views of earlier authorities, quotations, various readings,45 synonyms and vernacular names of drugs,46 the relative quantities of

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the ingredients of some compound formulae,47 vernacular names of diseases,48 etc. Another commentary, incompletely preserved and called Śrīraṇavīrasiṃhadevāvalokanasadvaidyasiddhāntaratnākara, was written by Jayadeva, son of Jayakṛṣṇa, during the reign of king Raṇavīrasimha of Kaśmīr49 who ascended the throne in 1857.50

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Bhāvaprakāśa — Bhāvamiśra 1550, Sanskrit