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327 Compare the list of special features in P.V. Sharma's Intr. to ed. d, 17–23. 328 The description of rasaka (rasāḥ 25–27) is identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 10.110cd–113ab. 329 The lists of varga seven indicate that it is a later addition, compiled from a number of conflicting sources. Compare the list of sādhāraṇarasas with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.90–91. 330 Modern Thaneswar in Haryana (N.N. Bhattacharyya, 1991: 280). Compare N. Dey (1979): 194; B.C. Law (1984): 129. 331 CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 105; the author is called Mahendra, son of Vaidya Kṛṣṇa, in MS Nr. 107; the name of the Gaṇadravyāvali is Dravyaguṇaratnamālikā in MS Nr. 106. A Jodhpur MS (Cat. Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, Jodhpur Collection, Nr. 4775 E = 9510; see P.M. Jinavijaya, 1965: II B, 224–225), completed in A.D. 1652/53, contains a Dravyavalisamuccaya by Mahendra Jaina, son of Kṛṣṇa Vaidya (JAI 89). A Dravyāvaliṇighaṇṭu in 900 verses by Munimahendra is also recorded (V.P.P. Śāstrī, 1984: 289). 332 Compare NCC IX, 184: anonymous Dravyāvali(nighaṇṭu); Check-list Nrs. 274–278; STMI 666; Cat. BHU Nr. 75. The author refers to his work as Dravyāvali several times in the introductory verses. P.V. Sharma (Intr. to ed. d, 7) claims that the Dravyāvali continued to exist in its original form. He located two MSS of this version; K. Raghunathan and S.D. Dube (1992: 395 and 397) mention even three MSS. The Chandra Shum Shere collection of the Bodleian library at Oxford contains a MS, shelved at d.713(3), of a Dravyāvali that describes 373 drugs (see D. Wujastyk 1990: 95). 333 The chief exponent of this view is P.V. Sharma (see P.V. Sharma, 1970; AVI 375–378; P.V. Sharma, 1976a: 101–107; P.V. Sharma's Intr. to D.K. Kamat, 1979; P.V. Sharma's Intr. to ed. d). Bāpālāl Vaidya (1982: 614–615) regarded the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu as a mixture of a Dravyāvali and some other work that may have been the original Dhanvantarinighaṇṭu. 334 See P.V. Sharma's Intr. to ed. d, 8–9. 335 This is especially striking when the Soḍhalanighaṇṭu is compared with the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu. 336 These quotations are not from the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu or a text resembling it, but from a therapeutic treatise. 337 Ad vanauṣadhivarga 127cd–128: not from the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu; ad 135: = Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu 3.94; ad 145: = 1.66 and 72ab; ad 151: not from the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu. 338 Ad Cakradatta, grahaṇī 47–49 (= Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu 2.78); rājayakṣman 87–90 (a formula of candanādyamahāsugandhaila; not from the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu); chardi 21 (= 1.215); vātavyādhi 185–188 (= 2.30) and 227–271 (= 3.69); pariṇāmaśūla 57–62 (= 1.215cd); śotha 8 (= 2.78); kuṣṭha 159 (= 1.219cd); kṣudraroga 92 (= 6.161); mukharoga 77 (= 1.266), 99–103 (= 3.33), 113–117 (= 2.52, 3.67 and 3.82). 339 Ad kuṣṭhacikitsā 160 (= Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu 1.219cd). 340 Ad 4.27cd–29: a reference to Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu 2.78; ad 15.17; ad 21.10–14: not from the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu. 341 C. Vogel, IL 314. P.V. Sharma assigns it to the eleventh century (Intr. to ed. d, 8). 342 P.V. Sharma, Intr. to ed. d, 8–9. 343 The seventh varga, however, contains later material. Vargas 1–6 are followed by a kind of supplement (vargetarāni). 344 P.V. Sharma dates the Dravyāvali to the tenth, and the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu to the thirteenth century. The Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu is assigned to the fourth or fifth century