A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.2

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1 NCC I, 459. Check-list Nr. 48. STMI 625–626. Edition: The Aṣṭāṅga Nighaṇṭu of Ācārya Vāhaṭa, ed. by Dr. P.V. Sharma, The Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Madras 1973 (previously published in the Journal of Oriental Research, Madras, 38, 1968/69, I–XXIII, 1–52, I–XI, and *39, 1969/70, I–XI, 1–12). This ed. is based on two MSS (Cat. Madras Nr. 13256 and Cat. Tanjore Nr. 11297). See on these MSS: P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., I–V (there are considerable differences between the two MSS; their texts are very corrupt and had to be reconstructed on the basis of the Amarakoṣa and the Dhanvantarinighaṇṭu). 2 Cat. Tanjore Nr. 11297. 3 Verse 202: “After describing those drugs which are (contained) in the gaṇas of the Saṃgraha and Alpasamgraha (= Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya)...” P.V. Sharma is wrong in asserting that the Aṣṭāṅganighaṇṭu describes the drugs according to the gaṇas of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya (Intr. to his ed., XIX). 4 See A.h.Sū.15.9–45 and A.s.Sū.16.2–37. The eight groups of A.h.Sū.15.1–8 are not discussed. 5 Stanza 30. 6 It may be a later addition, because A.s.Sū.16.40 speaks of a total of twenty-five groups, though the number is actually twenty-six. 7 See the long series of examples in P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., XXI–XXII. 8 The synonyms of katphala are omitted in the parūṣakādi-, lodhrādi- and surasādigaṇa, those of śāka in the asanādivarga. See on some more peculiarities: P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., XXII–XXIII. 9 Compare AVI 342. 10 P.V. Sharma (DGV IV, 269) considers the author to be a Vāhaṭācārya who is different from Vāgbhaṭa. P. Hymavathi (1993: 48–49) regards a Bāhaṭācārya as the author of the Aṣṭāṅganighaṇṭu and the Bāhaṭagrantha. 11 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., VII–VIII (the examples are from verses 380–400). The date of the Amarakoṣa remains uncertain, but it may have been composed in the sixth century (C.Vogel, IL 309–310). 12 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., XII, where nine quotations, which, in P.V. Sharma’s view, can only be from the Aṣṭāṅganighaṇṭu, are listed. See Indu for a critical evaluation of this, not sufficiently established, claim. 13 P.V. Sharma places Indu in the thirteenth century in the Intr. to his ed., XII. 14 Ad A.h.Sū.6.77 (synonyms of gojihvā). Compare Aṣṭāṅganighaṇṭu 243ab. 15 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., XII–XIII. 16 Acc. to P.V. Sharma, Vandyaghaṭīya Sarvānanda (author of the Ṭīkāsarvasva on the Amarakoṣa, completed in A.D. 1159/60; see C. Vogel, IL 315) also quotes it as Vāhaṭa ad Amarakoṣa, vaiśyavarga 43 (AVI 373, n.3; DGV IV, 269–270). 17 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., XVI. 18 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., XIV–XVIII. Compare G.J. Meulenbeld (1979): 68–70. 19 Intr. to the ed., XVIII.