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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s6: Moreśvara

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s6

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Moreśvara

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Moreśvara,⁵²⁰ son of the physician Māṇikyabhaṭṭa⁵²¹ or Māṇikabhaṭṭa,⁵²² and a resident of Ahammadanagara,⁵²³ wrote his Vaidyāmṛta⁵²⁴ in 1546/47.⁵²⁵

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This work is a short therapeutic treatise of about 180 stanzas,⁵²⁶ divided into four chapters (alaṃkāra). The order of the diseases is for the greater part the same as in the Mādhavanidāna; prescriptions against pāṇṭyaya, unmāda, hṛdroga, and mūtrāghāta appear to be absent;⁵²⁷ two recipes against jvarātisāra occur in the work (1.22–23); a pauṣṭika-, stambhana-, and drāvaṇayoga are added between the prescriptions against prameha and medoroga.

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The author states that his therapy is partly based on his own experience, partly on that of his teacher, and partly again on medical treatises (4.21); recipes derived from his teacher are sometimes specified as such (1.28; 2.8); one recipe is said to be decidedly effective although not found in authoritative texts (1.22).⁵²⁸

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Moreśvara’s work contains mainly āyurvedic prescriptions, but he also included some rasayogas. The recitation (kīrtana) of the hymn in praise of Śītalādevī is said to cure visphoṭa and not, as usual, masūrī (3.37). The materia medica does not contain noteworthy substances, apart from isabagola (1.22)⁵²⁹ and riṅgaṇī (1.12).⁵³⁰ Once a disorder called jhañjhā (1.7)⁵³¹ is referred to.

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Authorities mentioned are Ātreya, Pārāśara, Suśruta, and Vāgbhaṭa (1.1–2).

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Moreśvara’s Vaidyāmṛta is quoted in Hariprapanna’s Rasayogasāgara and in the Tāmbūlamañjarī.

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Moreśvara’s Vaidyāmṛta is said to be one of the sources of Raghunāthajī’s Nighaṇṭusamgraha. A Vaidyāmṛta⁵³² is one of the sources of Raṅgajyotirvid’s Vicārasudhākara.

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Moreśvara is also credited with a Nidānasiddhi, which may have formed part of a larger work called Cikitsāsāra.⁵³³

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A commentary on Moreśvara’s Vaidyāmṛta was written by Jyotiḥsvarūpa, pupil of Bhagavabodhasvarūpa.⁵³⁴

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