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A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c48.s6: Commentaries

A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c48.s6

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Commentaries

v3.c48.s6.1

A Sanskrit commentary, called *Arthavidyotinī*, on the whole of the *Āyurvedaprakāśa*, was written by Gulrājśarmamiśra.⁷⁰

v3.c48.s6.2

This useful and lucid commentary quotes from and refers to the following authorities and works: Āḍhamalla (1.174–179), *Ādityahṛdaya* (1.139),⁷¹ *Āgama* (1.396), Amara,⁷² Ānandakanda (1.363), Ātreya (2.338–340), *Bhagavadukti* (1.130), *Bhāratīyarasaśāstra* by Desāī (2.276–278ab),⁷³ Bhartṛhari (1.130), *Bhāvaprakāśa* (1. 418–425; 6.25–34ab), *Bhāvaprakāśanighaṇṭu* (2.276–278ab),⁷⁴ *Bhuśuṇḍopākhyāna* (1.133–134ab),⁷⁵ Bindu (2.133–134ab),⁷⁶ *Bṛhadvāsiṣṭha* (1.133–134ab),⁷⁷ Caraka (1.113, 127, 382, 539, 540, 547, 559cd–561; 3.295–296), Cūḍāmaṇi (2.234 and 350–351; 3.77–78, 205, 244–245ab),⁷⁸ Daḷḷaṇa (2.316–317), *Devayāmalaka* (1.481), *Devendragiri* (3.140–142),⁷⁹ *Dhuṇḍhukanātha* (1.401–403; 3.93–96),⁸⁰ Gaṅgādhara (1.547),⁸¹ Gorakṣanātha (1.137), Govinda (1.277–280 and 308–309),⁸² Govindabhikṣu (1.323),⁸³ Hājārīlālasukula (1.466–469ab),⁸⁴ Hemacandra (1.509–522),⁸⁵ Hemādri (2.316–317; 6.90–95), Kālānātha (1.270 and 401–403),⁸⁶ *Lohapaddhati* (2. 253; 3.207cd and 208–209), *Mahābhārata* (1.130), Maheśvara (1.108–112 and 136),⁸⁷ Medinī (1.136), Nāgārjuna (2.281–283), Nandin (2.270–272), Nārāyaṇa (3.192cd–193), *Nighaṇṭu* (1.162cd–163, 397, 428cd–435),⁸⁸ *Nighaṇṭurāja* (1.173), Nityanātha (1.106), Padmanābhasūnu (2.273–275),⁸⁹ Pāṇini (1.3), Raghunāthasampradāya (1.463), *Rasacintāmaṇi* (1.137 and 251), *Rasadarpaṇa* (1.187), Rasahṛdaya (often), *Rasakāmadhenu* (often), *Rasamañjarī* (often), *Rasamārtaṇḍa* (1.52–54ab), *Rasāmṛta* (3.1 and 25–26), *Rasapaddhati* (often), *Rasapaddhatīṭīkā* by Mahādeva (2.141–142; 4.133), *Rasaprakāśasudhakara* (often), *Rasaratnākara* (often), *Rasaratnasamuccaya* (often), *Rasaratnasamuccayaṭīkā* (2.276–278ab; 4.30), *Rasārṇava* (often), *Rasasaṅketakalikā* (1.399–400, 436–441), *Rasasāra* (often), *Rasataraṅgiṇī* (1.174–179, 399–400, 442–444ab, 444cd–448, 483), *Rasavāgbhaṭa* (2.273–275; 3.1, 6cd–10ab and 190–192ab), *Rasāyanasāra* (3.177cd–180 and 192cd–193ab), *Rasāyanasārasaṃgraha* (1.362), *Rasendracintāmaṇi* (often), *Rasendracintāmaṇiṭīkā* (1.192), *Rasendracūḍāmaṇi* (often), *Rasendrasārasaṃgraha* (often), *Śaivālābhakṣya* (1.191), *Śaktyavatāra* (1.88–89), *Śālīgrāmanighaṇṭubhūṣaṇa* (1.277–280), *Sāmkhyakārikā* (1.131 and 132), *Śārṅgadhara* (1.174–179; 3.282cd–284ab), *Śārṅgadharatippaṇī* (3.52cd–53), *Siddhabhaiṣajyamaṇiñjūṣā* by Jayadeva and its *vyākhyā* (3.30), *Siddhabheṣajamaṇimālā* (3.177cd–180), *Śivāgama* (1.118–121ab), *Śivamata* (3.3–4ab), *Śrīmadbhāgavata* (1.131), Suśruta (1.7, 127; 2.209; 3.30; 6.78–79 and 80–86), *Toḍarānanda* (1.191 and 367), Vāgbhaṭa (1.1), *vaijñānikāḥ* (2.350–351; 5.27), *Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇa* (1.133–134ab),⁹⁰ Veda (1.1), Yaśodhara (2.91–93),⁹¹ and *yūnānīgranthakārāḥ* (2.341).

v3.c48.s6.3

The author of this commentary mentions other variant readings of the text of the *Āyurvedaprakāśa*.⁹²

v3.c48.s6.4

Somadevaśarman wrote two commentaries on chapter one of the *Āyurvedaprakāśa*, one in Sanskrit and called *Pradīpa*, the other in Hindi and called *Uddyota*.

v3.c48.s6.5

Authorities and works quoted or referred to in these commentaries are:⁹³ Ānandakanda (1.223–228, 391–394, 433cd–435, 458–459, 460), *Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya* (1.130),

v3.c48.s6.6

Bhagavadgovindapāda, *Bhāvaprakāśa*, *Bṛhadasarājasundara* (1.123–126 and 399–400), Cakrapāṇi’s *Cikitsāsāṃgraha* (1.5), *Dhuṇḍhukanātha* (1.1), Govinda (1.307), *Mahābhārata* (1.130), *Rasacintāmaṇi*, *Rasahṛdaya*, *Rasakāmadhenu*, *Rasamañjarī*, *Rasamārtaṇḍa* (1.283–285), *Rasāmṛta* (1.408), *Rasapaddhati*, *Rasapaddhatīṭīkā*, *Rasaprakāśasudhakara*, *Rasaratnadīpikā*, *Rasaratnākara*, *Rasaratnapradīpa*, *Rasaratnapradīpikā*, *Rasaratnasamuccaya*, *Rasārṇava*, *Rasasaṃketakalikā*, *Rasasāra*, *Rasasindhu* (1.123–126), *Rasataraṅgiṇī*, *Rasendracintāmaṇi*, *Rasendracūḍāmaṇi*, *Rasendrasārasaṃgraha*, *Rudrayāmala* (1.123–126), *Sāmkhyatattvakaumudī* (1.131), *Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā*, Somadeva, Vāgbhaṭa, *Vaidyakaśabdasindhu* (1.426–428ab), Viśva (1.5), Yaśodhara, *Yogaratnākara*, *Yogataraṅgiṇī*, and *Yogavāsiṣṭha* (1.133–134).

v3.c48.s6.7

Somadevaśarman systematically indicates the metres of Mādhava’s verses. Occasionally, he criticizes the readings adopted in ed. a.

v3.c48.s6.8

Somadevaśarman was a Sārasvata brāhmaṇa, son of Raghunandanaśarman; he lived in a village called Bhavīgaṛh in the vicinity of Alīgaṛh.⁹⁴

v3.c48.s6.9

Gorakṣasaṃhitā

v3.c48.s6.10

The Gorakṣasaṃhitā¹ is a Tantric text, part of which deals with alchemy.

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