A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1329

v3.c46.1329

The tantrayuktis form part of a system of ninety-five tantraguṇas, elaborately described by Aruṇadatta.¹⁵²¹ Aruṇadatta is followed closely by the author of the Tantrayukti, who repeats Aruṇadatta's prose definitions in verse; he adds one item, thus enlarging upon the number and making a total of ninety-six tantraguṇas. The complete series of tantraguṇas consists, apart from the tantrayuktis, of fifteen types of exposition (vyākhyā), described in eleven ślokas (48–49), seven types of arrangement (kalpanā), described in seven ślokas and a half (49), twenty-one types of basic procedure (āśraya),¹⁵²² described in twenty-three ślokas and one gīti (50–52), and finally of a series of seventeen items which begin with tācchīlya, described in nineteen ślokas, one gīti and a half-verse of an unusual type (53–55).