A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1331

v3.c46.1331

After quoting Vāgbhaṭa (A.S.U.50.154 and 156–157), the author enumerates fourteen tantradoṣas in four ślokas (55), thus deviating from the series of fifteen doṣas given by Aruṇadatta by omitting one of them, namely bhinnakrama (displacement). A series of eleven verses and a half follows, in which the author praises Nīlamegha, the author of the Tantrayuktivicāra, and Bhiṣagārya, who composed the Abhidhānamañjarī (56–57). Five verses among these, which describe Nīlamegha's lineage, are taken from the Abhidhānamañjarī. The subject of leśakalpanā, one of the seven types of kalpanā, is taken up again at the end of the work; this topic is dealt with in prose, concluded by four verses (57–60). The author repeats the whole of Aruṇadatta's comment on the term, followed by his own exposition in prose, in which he quotes from the Śivadharmottara 1523 and an authority called Kālavedin; the chief terms discussed are (a)niyatāyus, (a)kālamṛtyu, and apamṛtyu. 1524