A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.752

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631 On alchemy. 632 This may be Candraṭa's work of this title. Absent from G. Hāldār's list. 633 An āyurvedic prescription. 634 A lauhacūrṇayoga. 635 Absent from G. Hāldār's list. Probably the same as the Yogaratnasamuccaya. 636 A lauhayoga. 637 Two treatises called Yogaśata, those by Nāgārjuna and Akṣadeva, are quoted acording to D.Ch. Bhaṭṭacharyya (1947b: 146). P.V. Sharma (1993: Intr. 23) is right in stating that the Yogaśataka of Nāgārjuna or Vararuci was Cakra's source. See: Yogaśataka. 638 Govardhana's Karmamālā is referred to. 639 Probably Sanātana. 640 Absent from G. Hāldār's list. 641 Cakra borrowed kāsa 65–68 from the Yogyakuti. 642 This is the name of a formula (P.V. Sharma, 1991a: 109; 1993: Intr. 29), not a work on lohaśāstra, as suggested by D.Ch. Bhaṭṭacharyya. 643 Also mentioned by G. Hāldār. 644 Also mentioned by G. Hāldār. The edited text reads śrīvikramapurakrama (see the formula of a lakṣmīvilāsataila compound from an unknown text ad vātavyādhi 276–278), explained as the tradition of Vikramapura by P.V. Sharma (1993: Intr. 29). 645 Ad Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā III.8.15. 646 Twenty-one references. Gopāladāsa had a predilection for Niścala's views and called him Niścalakarapādāḥ (see D.Ch. Bhaṭṭacharyya, 1948: 322). 647 Niścala refers to it as Rāḍhā. See on this region: N.N. Bhaṭṭacharyya (1991): 257; N. Dey (1979): 164–165. Niścala mentions rāḍhīya names of medicinal plants: ad agnimāndya 9–10; mūtraḳrcchra 28; masūrikā 5; vṛsya 15–25 and 38–44; some medicines which were current in Rāḍhā are described ad amlapitta 23–24. See also D.Ch. Bhaṭṭacharyya (1943). Other parts of Bengal mentioned by Niścala are Vaṅga (ad vātavyādhi 227–271 and āmavāta 66–71) and Varendrī (ad kuṣṭha 24). 648 See Niścala ad jvara 292. 649 P.V. Sharma prefers in his edition the reading Maheśvara to Khasarpaṇa, the reading found in the Calcutta MS. 650 Lokanātha is invoked at the beginning of the formula. P.V. Sharma prefers in his edition the reading Somanātha to Lokanātha, the variant occurring in the Calcutta MS. 651 D.Ch. Bhaṭṭacharyya (1947b): 129. See Sādhanamālā I, 42–43; compare F.W. Thomas (1903): 13 (Śubhaṃkara is mentioned), 14, 22 (Śubhaṃkara is mentioned). Lokanātha or Lokeśvara is, in his turn, an emanation of Amitābha (see Sādhanamālā II, Intr. 152–155) or a form of Avalokiteśvara (see M.-Th. de Mallmann, 1967: 175–180; D.L. Snellgrove, 1957: 78, 115). See on Khasarpaṇa: B. Bhaṭṭacharyya (1964): 140–141; N.K. Bhaṭṭasali (1929): 25–28; L. Chimpa and A. Chaṭṭopadhyaya (1970): 194–195; A. Foucher (1905): 24–28; M.-Th. de Mallmann (1967): 194–197. See on Khasarpaṇasādhanas and an Āryakhasarpaṇalokeśvarasādhana: F.W. Thomas (1903): 11–13, 14, 22. 652 This treatise is referred to ad kuṣṭha 38. 653 D.Ch. Bhaṭṭacharyya (1947b): 130 and 133. P.K. Gode (1939a) and N.N. Das Gupta (1936/37) are two other authors who seriously considered the possibility that Vijayarakṣita was Niścala's guru. 654 Niścala quotes earlier commentators on the Cakradatta, whose views he rejects (see his comments ad vidradhi 8).