A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s49.77

v3.c44.s49.77

Chapters eighteen to eighty-one deal with the nidāna of the various diseases. Trimalla states 627 that he adopted the order of the diseases established by Mādhava. In spite of this statement the arrangement of the Vaidyacandrodaya shows some minor divergences: the addition of chapters on pittaroga (41) and kapharoga (42) after the chapter on vātaroga; the addition of a chapter on piḍikā (43); a different order of the chapters on śopha, ślīpada and kuraṇḍa 628 (57), vraṇaśotha (58), sadyovraṇa, bhagna and nāḍīvraṇa (59), bhagandara (60), galagaṇḍa, gaṇḍamālā, apaci, granthi and arbuda (61), and vidradhi (62); the omission of a chapter on visphoṭa, and the omission of chapters on stanaroga and stanyaduṣṭi. Other differences are: the addition of bhasmaka in the chapter on agniroga (22); the addition of daṇḍājirṇa (verse 110) to the types of ajirṇa mentioned by Mādhava; the comparison of the eight major diseases with a king, surrounded by his courtiers (verse 131); the enumeration of the eighty vāta diseases.