A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1393

v3.c46.1393

by Saraṇamkara.75 The colophon states that the commentaries and interverbal paraphrases on the work had become extinct in the course of time, which induced king Vīraparākrama Narendrasimha (A.D. 1707–1739), who was in the possession of the book of gāthās, to invite the Buddhist prelate Vālivita Saraṇamkara (A.D. 1698/99–1778),76 resident of the Uposathārāma, to render that work into Sinhalese. The colophon adds that this Saraṇamkara, with the assistance of his teacher Palkumburē Atthadassi Thera and his own pupils, wrote a sannaya on chapters one to eighteen and translated the remaining chapters into Sinhalese.77 This work was completed in A.D. 1734. The king was so pleased that he presented Saraṇamkara with an elephant.78