A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.517

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156 Not described in the Mādhavanidāna. 157 Not described in the Mādhavanidāna. 158 The Cakradatta also deals with visarpa and visphoṭa in one chapter. 159 The Mādhavanidāna has three chapters on the subject (vraṇaśotha, śārīravraṇa, sadyovraṇa); the Siddhayoga deals with it in two chapters (vraṇaśotha and āgantuvraṇa), the Cakradatta in one chapter (vraṇaśotha). 160 The chapter on garbharakṣā deals with rules for the preservation of the health of a pregnant woman and her child; many balī offerings are mentioned, together with the accompanying mantras. 161 The Siddhayoga has chapters on pradara, yoniroga and strīroga, the Cakradatta on aṣṭodara, yonivyāpad and strīroga. 162 See on these diseases in Sanskrit medical literature: G.J. Meulenbeld (1981b). See on dracontiasis (snāyuka) also C. Vogel (1961). 163 AVI 260. S. Dādhīca's intr. to his edition of the Mādhavacikitsā. 164 The chapter on snāyuka differs in some respects from the group of verses on the same subject in the Siddhayoga. The chapter on somaroga contains a characterization of mūtrātīsāra (identical with somaroga in this case), which constitutes the sole example of the description of a disease in the Mādhavacikitsā. 165 CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 143. See AVI 260 for the titles of the chapters in this manuscript, in which those on kaumārabhṛtya are unfortunately missing, which makes it impossible to verify whether or not somaroga was dealt with in this version of the Mādhavacikitsā. It remains unknown whether all or part of the three MSS used for the edition of the Mādhavacikitsā contain the verses on snāyuka and somaroga, since the edition has no critical apparatus. 166 Some examples are 7.2–4 and 6; 37.6–7; 39.6 and 12. 167 Hyoscyamus niger Linn., prescribed for the first time in the Siddhayoga (7.1). 168 Some species of Datura, prescribed in the Siddhayoga (7.13). 169 See Siddhayoga 56.8 and 30; 68.6. In general, religious and magical elements are not absent from the Mādhavacikitsā; mantras (e.g., garbharakṣā 1–2, bālaroga 35, rasāyana 30) are repeatedly found and two yantras (the ubhayatrimśaka- and ubhayapañcadaśakayantra) promoting an easy delivery are described (strīroga 28–29; compare Siddhayoga 65.19 and Cakradatta, strīroga 10). 170 Examples are bṛhadagnimukhacūrṇa (Siddhayoga 63.3–42 = Cakradatta, agnimāndyādi 30–38), khaṇḍakhādyaloha (Siddhayoga 9.65–79 = Cakradatta, raktapitta 82–96ab), kaiśorakaguggulu (Siddhayoga 23.34–42), punarnavāguggulu (Siddhayoga 23.50–55 = Cakradatta, vātarakta 61–66), yogasārāmṛta (Siddhayoga 23.56–61 = Cakradatta, vātarakta 67–71), and guḍamaṇḍūra (Siddhayoga 27.31–36 = Cakradatta, pariṇāmaśūla 36–41: tārāmaṇḍūra-guḍa). 171 See on pariṇāmaśūla, often identified as peptic and duodenal ulcer, its treatment, and drugs used in this treatment: N. Banu et al. (1982); G.N. Chaturvedi et al. (1982); H.S. Kasture (1982); N.R. Pillai et al. (1978); N.R. Pillai and G. Santhakumari (1984a), (1984b), (1985); A.K. Sanyal, B.L. Pandey and R.K. Goel (1982); L. Sarada Amma and P.K. Narayana Sharma (1982); D.N. Sharma (1996); G.B. Singh, S.H. Zaidi and R.P. Bajpai (1962); K.P. Singh and R.H. Singh (1989); M. Sinha et al. (1976); T. Sripathi Rao et al. (1991); H.K. Trivedi (1996); M.D. Varma et al. (1977); P.K. Warrier, S.M. Pillai and P.M. Raveendran (1975); P.K. Warrier, S. M. Pillai and K. Santha Kumari (1976), (1977a), (1977b), (1979).