A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c49.s8.5

v3.c49.s8.5

Special features Noteworthy disorders mentioned are: agramāṃsa (367–368), 157 āhavajvara (76–81), 158 asthijvara (103), 159 and raktadhātugatadāha (103). 160 The section dealing with the treatment of women's diseases includes verses on disorders called bādhaka, caused by four demonic beings, dangerous to pregnant women and women in childbed, whose names are Raktamādrī, Jaṅkurī, Ṣaṣṭhī, and Jalakumāra. These beings are described, together with the symptoms occasioned by their attack (409–410). 161 This description is follwed by a quotation in sixteen verses and a section in prose from the Bhairavitantra, 162 concerned with the means of appeasing the demons mentioned (411–414). Unusual is the presence of a number of prescriptions fathered on Sanaka (167; 174; 175; 177–178; 190; 242; 260; 332–333; 342).