A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.121

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581 They are found in the part of chapter twenty-two that reproduces Jivaka's Bālatantra. Their names are: (1) Dhanvinī, Bhīṣaṇī, Kanṭhamālinī, Kākolī, Hastinī, Humkārī, Muktakeśī, Tridanḍī, Ajameṣī, Rodinī; (2) Śakunī, Makuṭā, Gomatī, Piṅgalā, Kāñcanī, Paṅkajā, Śītalā, Rajanī, Kumbhakarṇī, Śabarī, Rākṣasī and Cañcalā; (3) those who seize a child from the first (not the second year in this case) to the sixteenth year: Gandhinī, Nandinī, Bandhinī, Capalā, Tāpasī, Kārmukī, Jātavedā, Nalinī, Capalā again, Revatī, Bālikā, Yāminī, Yakṣiṇī, Sundarī, Vāruṇī, Dhanadā (some verses of the last part are missing). The end of the chapter (187–228) has verses on two more series of grahīs who assault children from the first to the tenth day and to the twelfth month of life; Anantakumāra does not name the source of these verses, but they literally agree with the verses describing these grahīs in chapter eleven of the Tantrasārasamgraha.