A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s21: Yaśaḥkīrti
A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s21
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Yaśaḥkīrti
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Yaśaḥkīrti was the author of the Jagatsundarīprayogamālā, 1381 a work on therapy, 1382 written in 1,500 Prakrit verses (gāthā), 1383 arranged in forty-two or forty-three chapters.
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The treatise is especially valuable for its description of fifteen yantras with rather unusual names: airāvaṇa-, bāṇagaṅgā-, bheruṇḍa-, gaṅgā-, gatapratyāgata-,
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hamsaśravā-, jaladurgabhayānaka-, mahā-, meghanādbhramaṇavarta-, pāṇḍavāmālī-, rājābhyudaya-, vāyu-, vidyādharavāpī-, vidyādharī-, and vidyādharīnṛtyayantra. 1384
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Yaśaḥkīrti was a Jain, and a pupil of Vimalakīrti, in his turn a pupil of Rāmakīrti, of the Bāgada saṅgha. 1385 He is usually placed in the sixteenth century. 1386
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Seventeenth-century authors and works