A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c47.101

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āyurveda, but much less space is devoted to them. A nidāna-, śārīra-, and kalpasthāna are absent. The nidāna and treatment of a disease are in all cases found in one and the same chapter. The properties of medicinal substances are not enumerated, although those of articles of food are elaborately described. Most of the subjects of the anonymous *Gajaśāstra* are either absent or much more concisely discussed. The medical science, applied to elephants and their diseases, is the major concern of the *Hastyāyurveda*.⁵³⁷ Section one is called mahārogasthāna, which conveys the impression that the diseases it describes were considered to be the major diseases of elephants.⁵³⁸ Chapter one (vanānucarita) deals with stories about Pālakāpya, his encounter with Romapāda, and the exposition of the hastyāyurveda by the former to the latter. Chapter two (annasamācāra) is about the care for and feeding of elephants. Chapter three (sāmyāsātmyaviniścaya) is concerned with the fifteen causes of death in wild elephants, and with their natural food. Chapter four (śāstrasaṃgraha) gives a table of contents of the treatise, their chapter. Chapter five (gajalakṣaṇavinayāsa) contains a eulogy of elephants and verses on the care for them. Chapter six (śiṣyopanayana) is about the initiation of pupils.⁵³⁹ Chapter seven (rogavibhakti) contains interesting classifications of the diseases of elephants. Chapter eight (jvarotpatti) tells mythical stories about the origin of fever. Chapters nine to eighteen deal with a series of diseases and their treatment: jvara (fever; 9),⁵⁴⁰ skanda (10),⁵⁴¹ pāṇḍuroga (11),⁵⁴² ānāha (12),⁵⁴³ mūrcchā (13),⁵⁴⁴ śiroroga (diseases of the head; 14),⁵⁴⁵ pādarōga (diseases of the legs; 15),⁵⁴⁶ vyāpad (disorders caused by the wrong employment of particular articles of food or medicinal preparations; 16),⁵⁴⁷ śopha (17),⁵⁴⁸ and akṣiroga (eye diseases; 18).⁵⁴⁹ Section two is called kṣudrarogasthāna.⁵⁵⁰ Its subjects are: vamathu (vomiting; 1), atisāra (2),⁵⁵¹ madanajagdhaka (3),⁵⁵² tṛṇasoṣin (4),⁵⁵³ karmātinīta (5),⁵⁵⁴ viṣa (poisoning; 6-8),⁵⁵⁵ digdhaviddha (disorders in elephants pierced by poisoned arrows; 9), sarpadaṣṭa (snake-bites; 10), sphoṭikā (boils and bites by spiders; 11), apavādabaddha (12),⁵⁵⁶ pūrvābaddha (13),⁵⁵⁷ visarpa (14),⁵⁵⁸ hṛdayasphālana (15),⁵⁵⁹ vālakṣaṇī (16),⁵⁶⁰ medhrakṣāṇī (17),⁵⁶¹ hastonmathita (18),⁵⁶² udāvarta (19), utkarṇaka (20),⁵⁶³ vātagati (21),⁵⁶⁴ manyāgraha (22),⁵⁶⁵ madakṣīṇa (23),⁵⁶⁶ kṛśa (24),⁵⁶⁷ balakṣīṇa (25),⁵⁶⁸ śleṣmābhiṣaṅga (26),⁵⁶⁹ vanasātmyānulomika (27),⁵⁷⁰ talakāśī (28-29),⁵⁷¹ galagraha (30),⁵⁷² tṛṣṇā (thirst) and siddhārthaka (31),⁵⁷³ bhūtagraha (32),⁵⁷⁴ unmāda (insanity; 33), apasmāra (epilepsy; 34), vātakundalikā (35),⁵⁷⁵ bhāronmathita (36),⁵⁷⁶ lupta (37),⁵⁷⁷ paṭṭakṛmi (38),⁵⁷⁸ uraḥkṣata (39),⁵⁷⁹ śoṇitāṇḍa (40),⁵⁸⁰ yavagaṇḍaśiras (41),⁵⁸¹ carmakīla (warts; 42), vṛddha or jarā (old age; 43), avasāda (lassitude; 44), jaṭharaka (45),⁵⁸² bālacikitsā (diseases of young elephants, separated from their parents; 46), rātrikṣipta (47),⁵⁸³ mūtrasaṅgha (48),⁵⁸⁴ sūtīkāvāta (49),⁵⁸⁵ dantaroga (diseases of the teeth; 50), cetobhramśa (51),⁵⁸⁶ śūla (52),⁵⁸⁷ śarada (53),⁵⁸⁸ madhumakṣikādaṣṭa (stings by honeybees; 54), chavīdoṣa (55),⁵⁸⁹ mṛttikābhakṣaṇa (56),⁵⁹⁰ grahaṇīdoṣa (chronic diarrhoea; 57), āma (58),⁵⁹¹ kṛmikoṣṭha (infestation of the intestinal tract by worms; 59),⁵⁹² kṣaya (60),⁵⁹³ mada (61),⁵⁹⁴ karṇavālakṛmi (parasites living in the ears and on the hairs of the tail; 62), karṇaroga (diseases of the ears; 63), abhakṭacandha (want of appetite; 64), bhaktagrāsoparodha (65),⁵⁹⁵ droṇikāśopha (66),⁵⁹⁶ atiyāta (67),⁵⁹⁷ gulma (swelling of the abdominal viscera; 68), hṛdroga (diseases of the heart; 69), and gātraroga (70–72).598