A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1193

v3.c46.1193

The work consists of about 700 verses and some prose, arranged in thirty chapters (paṭala). The contents of the chapters are listed as follows (1.14–17): māraṇa and mohana (2), stambha (3 and 4), vidveṣa (5), uccāṭana (6), vaśī (7 to 9), ākarṣaṇa (10), indrajāla or kautuka (11), yakṣiṇī(mantrasādhana) (12), rasāyana (13), (mṛtyu)kālajñāna (14), anāhāra (15), atyantāhāra (17), nidhidarśana (17), vandhyāputravatīyoga or vandhyāgarbhadhāraṇa (18), mṛta(vatsāsuta)jīvitva (19), kākavandhyāputrakaraṇa (20), vivādavijaya (21), vājīkaraṇa (22), strīdrāvaṇa (23), vīryastambhana (24), liṅgavardhanādiyoga (25), keśarañjana (26), keśapātana (27), bhūtagrahanivāraṇa (28), grahadoṣapānivāraṇa (29), and siṃhavyāghrasarpaṛścikādibhayānāśana (30). Of some medical interest are chapters thirteen to sixteen, eighteen to twenty, twenty-two, and twenty-four to twenty-eight.