A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s5.16

v3.c44.s5.16

Chapter one (eighty-two verses) deals,³⁹⁰ after twelve introductory verses, with fevers,³⁹¹ chapter two (thirty verses)³⁹² with jvarātisāra, atisāra and grahaṇī, chapter three (forty-eight verses)³⁹³ with various disorders (1–37), women’s diseases (38–46)³⁹⁴ and children’s diseases (47–48), chapter four (fifty-four verses)³⁹⁵ with various disorders, and chapter five (twenty-four verses)³⁹⁶ with vājīkaraṇa.³⁹⁷ The materia medica differs from that of the *Camatkāracintāmaṇi* in including many inorganic substances, in particular for vājīkaraṇa purposes in a number of rasayogas (5.13–20).³⁹⁸ Religious elements in its therapy are rather rare (1.59; 5.23), but allusions to mythology are frequent. One of the formulae is called after the author’s wife (ratnalācūrṇa; 2.23). The only authority referred to is Parāśara (1.25).