A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.48

v4.c57.48

123 Hoernle's translations are confusing; at II.334 he renders alāsaka as tympanitis, which is probably right because the term occurs in a series of vāta diseases (this means that it is used in the sense of alāsaka); at II.748 the correct reading is, as noticed by Hoernle, vātabalāsaka (not vātam alāsaka-), rightly translated as persistent low fever; the Sanskrit Index, however, gives glossitis, an inflammation of the tongue, for alāsaka (alāsaka is a disease of the tongue in the Suśrutasaṃhitā: Ni.16.38).