A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s33: Kāśīnātha
A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s33
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Kāśīnātha
v3.c44.s33.1
Kāśīnātha, son of Śaṃkara and Rohiṇī, was the author of the Kāśīnāthapaddhati, also called Vaidyakapaddhati and Āyurvedasāra.105 The treatise deals with all aspects of medicine: weights and measures, the examination of the pulse, the preparation of medicines, kālajñāna, the aetiology, symptomatology and treatment of diseases, emetics and purgatives, and, finally, the purification of metals, etc.106
v3.c44.s33.2
The work dates from A.D. 1665/66,107 which implies that the author is different from the Kāśīnātha of the Ajīrṇamañjarī.
v3.c44.s33.3
The Kāśīnāthapaddhati was one of the sources of the Amṛtasāgara.