A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.103

v4.c57.103

4 Editions: a The Bhela Samhita; Sanskrit text; University of Calcutta, Journal of the Dept. of Letters, Calcutta University Press, 1921. The (Prefatory) Note by Asutosh Mookerjee implies that this edition was based on two copies of the Tanjore MS, made by two different scribes at different periods of time. Vedantabisharad Ananta Krishna Shastri is responsible for the emendations. b Bhelasaṃhitā; saṃskartā Śrīgirijādayāluśukla, Vidyābhavan Āyurveda Granthamālā 25, Vārāṇasī 1959. This edition has an upodghāta in Sanskrit by Girijādayālu Śukla, who remarks (9–10) that he corrected the errors in the printed text of edition a by help of the copies of the Tanjore MS that were used in producing a, which explains that the readings of a and b are sometimes slightly different. The emendations vary at many places and are usually better than those of edition a, because Vedantabisharad Ananta Krishna Shastri had no expert knowledge of āyurveda (see upodghāta, 9). c Bhelasaṃhitā (mahārṣipunarvasor ātreyasyāntevāsinā bhelācāryeṇa praṇītā), editors: V.S. Veṅkatasubrahmaṇyaśāstrī and C. Rājarājeśvarasarmā, C.C.R.I.M.H./Pub. 31, New Delhi 1977; Introduction by R.S. Singh, praṣtāvanā (in Sanskrit) by V.S. Veṅkatasubrahmaṇyaśāstrī. This edition, based on the Tanjore MS, is more complete than the previous ones, in which some portions of the MS were omitted; these portions are listed in Appendix A. Appendix B compares the readings of the MS with