A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c47.27

v3.c47.27

GAṆA, son of Durlabha: Aśvāyurveda or Siddhayogasamgraha.118 The Aśvāyurveda is a treatise on horses and their diseases; it is described as a saṃhitā of 6,000 verses, arranged in six sections (sthāna). The names of these sections are: (1) lakaṣaṇa, (2) rasavyākaraṇa, (3) kalpasūtra, (4) nidāna, (5) cikitsā, and (6) rahasya.119 The author states that he took his material from the works of Śālihotra, Suśruta, Garga, and Dinapati. Some names of diseases mentioned in the introductory part are:120 āmaṇḍaka, aṇḍacāli, aṇḍakṣa, aṇḍaskanna, añjalīkārikā, aśrupāta, anuskanna,121 bhārābhiṣaṇṇa, budbuda, damśapaittika, drauṇikā,122 ekāṅgaroga, kāca, kaphāṇḍa, koṣṭharājī, krimikoṣṭha,123 liṅgita,124 muñja, muñjajāla, nirāṇuka, parisrāvi, paṭala, pittāṇḍa,125 prakoṭaka, prakuñcaka, praskanna,126 pratitūrṇa, prāvāraka, puṇḍarīkagraha, pūyāṇḍa, raktāṇḍa, rātrivāta, siṃhānaka,127 svacchanda, ulūkapādasthānaruj,128 unnīta, vālāḍaka, vātabalāsaka,129 viduragraha, vidutkṣipta, and yoktrābhitāpa. The Sārasamgraha prescribes meat broth in the treatment of vāta diseases.130 Gaṇa’s Aśvāyurveda is quoted in Mitramiśra’s Viramitrodaya.131 The same work contains verses from Gaṇa’s Aśvacikitsā.132 The Gaṇagrantha by Gaṇa is quoted in Nakula’s Aśvaśāstra. A.C. Burnell assigned Gaṇa’s work to the eleventh or twelfth century.133 The author mentions the Rattaula, a tenth-century family of Jain princes of central Telingana,134 and refers to the Muslims, which shows that he may indeed have lived in the eleventh or twelfth century.