A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s24: Bhāskara
A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s24
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Bhāskara
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Bhāskara,²⁷ son of the physician Āpājibhaṭṭa,²⁸ who was a resident of Benares (Kāśīkṣetra), grandson of Haribhaṭṭa, great-grandson of Puruṣottamabhaṭṭa of the Agnihotrī family and of Kāśyapagotra, who lived at Tryambakeśvarapura²⁹ in Mahārāṣṭra, father of Jayarāma,³⁰ composed a treatise on human anatomy in 110 verses, called *Śārīrapadminī*.³¹ The work dates from 1678/79 and was provided with a commentary, called *Padminīprabodha*, by Vaidyanātha.³²
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Other works by Bhāskara are the *Padyāmṛtataraṅgiṇī*³³ (composed in 1676) and the *Smṛtiprakāśa*,³⁴ which is posterior to the *Śārīrapadminī* because it quotes from the latter.³⁵ Apart from the works already mentioned, Bhāskara wrote the *Adhyātmarāmāyaṇaprakāśa*,³⁶ *Bhāskaracarita*,³⁷ *Gaṅgāstuti*,³⁸ *Lakṣmīstuti*,³⁹ *Paribhāṣābhāskara*,⁴⁰ *Śuddhiprakāśa*,⁴¹ *Vṛttaratnākarasetu*,⁴² and *Yaśavantabhāskara*.⁴³