A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.171

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779 Quoted on the preparation of a kvātha (decoction). Kumāranandin, the guru of Virasena’s guru Elācārya, lived about A.D. 700 (Jyoti Prasad Jain, 1950: 133). 780 See NCC IV, 221; Intr. to ed. a, 30; A.K. Chatterjee (1978): 305, 306, 331: mentioned in the Harivaṃśa (*1.38) of Jinasena II (A.D. 783); J.P. Jain (1964): 160 and 199. Kumārasena may belong to the middle of the ninth century (A.K. Chatterjee, 1978: 206). 781 Quoted on the preparation of a kvātha (decoction). An astronomer called Śrutakīrti is quoted in Bhaṭṭotpala’s commentary on the Bṛhajjātaka (CC I, 675). 782 Quoted on the preparation of a kvātha (decoction); he disagrees with Kumāranandin and Śrutakīrti. Virasena is also referred to in Akalaṅka’s Vidyāvinoda (NCC I, 7). Virasena wrote his part of the Dhavalā, the earliest commentary on the Karmaprabhṛta of the Digambara canon, in A.D. 780 (Jyoti Prasad Jain, 1950: 133) or 816, during the reign of Amoghavarṣa I (A.K. Chatterjee, 1978: 294). See on Virasena: A.K. Chatterjee (1978): 106, 165, 206, 294–296, 298; J.P. Jain (1964): 142, 185–189, 203. 783 See Bower MS on an authority called Vāḍvali. 784 See Vettam Mani. 785 See Vettam Mani on persons called Śibi. 786 This king is called Pṛṣadhra in the Carakasamhitā (Ci.9.4). Compare H.H. Wilson (1972): 280. 787 The Virasiṃhāvaloka (117) quotes Kalyāṇakāraka 17.119. G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 52) assumes that the Kalyāṇasiddhi, quoted by Niścalakara, is identical with Ugrāditya’s Kalyāṇakāraka. 788 CC I, 745. See R. Schmidt (1904). 789 The Mādhavanidāna (61.3–4; source unknown) has four types, by kapha, pitta, vāta and saṃnipāta. 790 Also mentioned by Suśruta (Ni.5.5: rakasā, parisarpa and visarpa). 791 Not mentioned elsewhere. 792 Not mentioned in other texts. 793 Not mentioned elsewhere. 794 See Su.Ni.13.14 = Mādhavanidāna 55.12. 795 Their number is sixty-five in the Suśrutasaṃhitā (Ni.16.3) and Mādhavanidāna (56). 796 Not mentioned as a disease in other texts; it is usually regarded as a symptom and called āsyavairasya. 797 The Suśrutasaṃhitā (U.53.6ab) = Mādhavanidāna (13.4ab) has no raktaja type, but a kṣayaja type instead. 798 The viḍvighāta type is found in the Carakasamhitā (Si.9.42cd–43) and Vāgbhaṭa’s works (A.h.Ni.9.33cd–34, with which Mādhavanidāna 31.19cd–20 partially agrees; A.s.Ni.9.7) and the bastikuṇḍala type in the Carakasamhitā (Si.9.44–49ab) and Mādhavanidāna (31. 21–23cd). 799 It is described in the Mādhavanidāna (30.8). 800 Mādhava regards visphoṭa and masūrikā as two distinct diseases (Nidāna 53 and 54), while his description of masūrikā differs considerably from that by Ugrāditya and is much more developed. The term sphoṭamasūrikā is not found elsewhere. Ugrāditya mentions separately an epidemic (upasargaja) type of masūrikā (18.62–64). 801 Compare on special features of the Kalyāṇakāraka: R.G. Ghatnekar and B.P. Nanal (1979); JAI 185–208. 802 Kinnaras are celestial musicians in Hindu mythology. They are one of the eight orders of Vyantaras in Jain mythology.