A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1417

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ŚAILASIMHA or Śailendrasimha was the author of the *Vaidyacintāmaṇibhaiṣajyasaṃgrahaya*, a comprehensive medical work in Sinhalese prose, with a large number of Sanskrit verses, quoted from earlier treatises. Śailasimha's main source was, as indicated in the introductory verses, a Tamil work, probably called *Vaidyacintāmaṇi*, and based, in its turn, on a Sanskrit original, which may be the treatise of this title by Valabhendra.