A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.14

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245 Har Dutt Sharma (1942): 13. 246 CC: not recorded. H.P. Śāstrī (1905): 140 (Nr. 1647): cikitsāśāstram ārogyārthaśāntisvastayanādisahitam. AVI 313. J. Jolly (1901): 125 (C.G. Kashikar 151). See the description of a photograph of this MS in Gambier Parry, Nr. 48: an ancient treatise on medicine, recited to Vibhīṣaṇa, the pious brother of the wicked Rāvaṇa. 247 NCC XI, 239. Editions: *a Ed. by Viṭṣarakāra, Calcutta 1891/92. *b C. Bhaṭṭācārya under the title Ratnamālābhidhānaṃ arthāt Vanauṣadhivarga (see T. Chowdhury's Intr. to ed. c). c by Tarapada Chowdhury, Patna 1946 (reprinted from *Patna University Journal, Vol. 2); reviewed by K.V. Sarma, The Journal of Oriental Research (Madras) 19 (1949), part 1, 94–95. This is a critical edition, based on eight MSS, which are described in the Intr. In addition to these, T. Chowdhury made use of a printed ed. (b) and the quotations found in the Śabdakalpadruma and Umeśacandragupta's Vaidyakaśabdasindhu, the authors of which often quote from the Ratnamālā and had access to independent MSS. Among Chowdhury's MSS there is only one that reaches the end (Cat. Skt. MSS Calcutta Sanskrit College X, 41, Nr. 51: Ratnamālā by Mādhavakara.). Another complete MS was described by R. Mitra (Notices X, Nr. 3150: 221 verses). Compare G.J. Meulenbeld (1974): 10–11. References are to c. 248 The title of the work is Ratnamālā according to its concluding stanzas; it is also quoted under that name. 249 Concluding stanzas of the Ratnamālā. One MS ascribes the work to Rājavallabha (*R. Mitra, Notices I, Nr. 207; see S.K. De, 1937/38: 275). 250 According to the colophon. 251 See on homonyms: J. Gonda (1936a). 252 The term aṣṭavarga is absent from the Bṛhattrayī and the Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha. See on the history of the aṣṭavarga: V.K. Joshi (1983). 253 Unidentified. 254 Already mentioned at Ca.Sū.4.18. A climber, the leaves and flowers of which resemble those of the aśoka. Identified as Erycibe paniculata Roxb. by T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar (1972). The same as kaṭukā according to P.V. Sharma (1997) and others (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1282). Kaṭukā is identified as Picrorrhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth. (see G.J. Meulenbeld, 1974: 533–534; T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar, 1972; WIRM VIII, 49) and P. scrophulariiflora Pennell = P. kurroa auct. non Royle (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1282; compare S.S.R. Bennet, 1987 and WIRM VIII, 49–50). 255 Compare Dhanvantarinighaṇṭu 5.134 (aṣṭapadī = mallikā) and Rājanighaṇṭu 10.225 with Paryāyaratnamālā 311. Identified as Vallaris solanacea Kuntze = V. dichotoma Wall. in MW. 256 Usually identified as Cissus quadrangularis Linn. 257 A small variety of karkāru: identified as Cucumis sativus Linn. (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 527), Cucurbita pepo Linn. (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 530; P.V. Sharma in his ed. of the Kaiyadevanighaṇṭu; P.V. Sharma, 1997; T.B. Singh and K.C. Chunekar, 1972), and Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. = B. cerifera Savi (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 228; H. Losch, 1959).