A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c52.188

v3.c52.188

GAURĪKAṄCALIKĀTANTRA.²⁶⁴ This treatise, in the form of a dialogue between Īśvara and Devī,²⁶⁵ consists of 355 verses.²⁶⁶ Subjects dealt with are: 267 kālajñāna (24–79); ṛtubheda (81–87);²⁶⁸ citrakalpa (88–92);²⁶⁹ maṇḍūkaparṇikalpa (93–95);²⁷⁰ punarnavākalpa (96–100);²⁷¹ nirguṇīkalpa (101–120);²⁷² hastikarṇakalpa (121–137);²⁷³ śvetārkakalpa (138–150);²⁷⁴ bhṛṅgarājakalpa (151–154);²⁷⁵ kāchalākalpa (155);²⁷⁶ amlalonīkalpa (156–157);²⁷⁷ śalmalikalpa (158–167); abhayākalpa (168–172); the treatment²⁷⁸ of jvara (180–200), bahumūtra (201–202), mūtraṛcchra (203–205), bindu(srāva)kṣaya (a deficient amount of ejaculated semen; 206–209), kuraṇḍa and galagaṇḍa (210–214), bhagandara (215), kāmalā (216), vaivarṇya (217),²⁷⁹ kāsa and śvāsa (218–220), yakṣman and kṣaya (221–223), nāsāraktasrava (nosebleeds; 224), arśas (225–226), karṇaśūla (227–229), netraroga (230–233), śiroroga (234–235), dantaroga (237–239), atisāra (240–242), śūla (243–246),²⁸⁰ vicarcikā (247), kuṣṭha (248–254), plīharoga (255), visphoṭaka (256–257), arbuda (258), agnidagdhavraṇa (259–260), śīlpada (261–263), nidrākṣaya (insomnia; 264–266), and nidrā (267–271); adṛśya (making oneself invisible; 272–275); nidhidarśana (the discovery of hidden treasures; 276–277); dehadurgandha (the removal of a bad bodily smell), kānti, puṣṭi, etc. (283–290); vaśīkaraṇa, mohana, vājīkaraṇa, stambhana, etc. (309–355). The Gaurīkaṅcalikātantra is quoted in Jñānasarāmaśarman’s Anupānadarpaṇa. The treatise is sometimes said to belong to the sixteenth century.²⁸¹