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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s3: Lakṣmaṇa Paṇḍita

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s3

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Lakṣmaṇa Paṇḍita

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Lakṣmaṇa Paṇḍita 361 was the author of the Yogacandrikā, 362 also called Vaidyakayogacandrikā 363 and Gūḍhaprakāśikā. 364 This work, dealing with materia medica and therapeutics, contains 1,700 verses, 365 arranged in thirty-eight chapters.

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Authorities referred to in the Yogacandrikā are Caraka, Hārīta, Parāśara, and Suśruta.

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Lakṣmaṇa’s Yogacandrikā is one of the sources of Hariprapanna’s Rasayogasāgara. 366

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Two more works ascribed to Lakṣmaṇa are a commentary on the Raghuvamśa called Advaitasudha 367 and the Sāracandrikā. 368

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Lakṣmaṇa was the son of Datta of the Brahmajnānin family. He had three elder brothers, Gaṇeśa, Raghunātha, and Rāma, and one younger brother, Viṭṭhala, 369 and was a southerner, possibly a Mahārāṣṭra brāhmaṇa, who abandoned his property and went to Benares. 370 Lakṣmaṇa studied medicine at Benares under the tuition of two brothers, Nāgeśa (or Nāganātha, the author of the Nidānapradīpa) and Nārāyaṇa (who wrote the Jvaranirṇaya and a commentary on Śārṅgadhara’s Triśatī), which implies that the Yogacandrikā dates from the sixteenth century. 371

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