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643 Unidentified. 644 Ṭaṅka, mentioned in Caraka- and Suśrutasaṃhitā, is often identified as Pyrus communis Linn. (AVI 360; P.V. Sharma, 1979a: 70). 645 Hydnocarpus laurifolia (Dennst.) Sleumer = H. wightiana Blume (P.V. Sharma). Mentioned at Su.Sū.45.122. 646 Identified as Prunus armeniaca Linn., the apricot (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1345; P.V. Sharma, 1979a: 76–77). 647 Variously identified: Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (Dennst.) Nicolson = A. campanulatus Blume ex Decne. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 119; compare S.S.R. Bennet, 1987), A. sylvaticus (Roxb.) Kunth = Synantherias sylvatica Schott (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 120a; Chopra’s Glossary; DWH III, 547; Nadkarni I, Nr. 2421), Crinum defixum Ker-Gawl. (L.S. Bhatnagar et al., 1973: 80), Sauromatum venosum (Ait.) Kunth (G. Pandey, 1994: 81–84), Urginea indica Kunth (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 642 and p.244; P.V. Sharma, 1979a: 134–135). 648 Unidentified. 649 Unidentified. 650 Pistia stratiotes Linn. (M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1306; P.V. Sharma). 651 Unidentified. Compare on special features: AVI 391–392. 652 Undoubtedly the same as yauvanapiḍakā, i.e., acne vulgaris. 653 A variant of this name is Śārṅga (AVI 390; bhūmikā to ed. d, 6). P.V. Sharma is of the opinion that this Śārṅga is identical with the person of the same name who wrote the Vīrasimhāvaloka for king Vīrasiṃha (bhūmikā to ed. d, 6). 654 The Bhāradvājagotra had a relatively low status according to R. Thapar (1984: 85, n.78). 655 AVI 391 and DGV IV, 290: P.V. Sharma bases his statement that Kaiyadeva was a resident of Gujarāt on the use of the term andolikā (vihāravarga 344), i.e., a swing, especially popular in that region, and the mention of medicinal plants like tilaparṇī (1.653–655), vellantara (1.851cd-853ab), etc. According to Surendra Mohan (the editor of *ed. b), some of the local names of plants given by Kaiyadeva come very near to their Gujarātī names (see Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1982: 621). 656 Compare DGV IV, 289–290. 657 *Sarasvatībhavan, Vārāṇasī, Nr. 1/157/87063 (bhūmikā to ed. d, 8). 658 BHU Nr. B 2092 = Cat. BHU Nr. 87 (AVI 392, n. 1; bhūmikā to ed. d, 5). 659 Usually identified as Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) Schum. = Th. neriifolia Juss. (Chopra’s Glossary); Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) Merrill = Th. neriifolia Juss. ex Steud. (WIRM X, 225). The plant is a native of America and the West Indies (Watt VI, 47), but is widely cultivated in India for ornament. Its provenance indicates that Thevetia peruviana cannot be the pītakara-vīra of the Kaiyadeva- and Rājanighaṇṭu. 660 Madanapālanighaṇṭu 1.324–325. Dhanvantarinighaṇṭu 4.1–2. 661 Rājanighaṇṭu 10.7. It is absent again from the Bhāvaprakāśanighaṇṭu (guḍūcyādivarga 82–84). 662 NCC IV, 70. 663 Editions: a Vaidyamanoramā and Dhārākalpa, ed. by Brahmashri T. Nilkanth Sharma and Vaidya Jadavji Tricumji Acharya, Āyurvedic Granthamālā Nrs. 8, 9, Nirṇaya Sāgar Press, Bombay 1913 [BL.14044.bb.6; IO.San.C.303 and 11.E.23]; 2nd ed., 1924; *ed. 1933. b Vaidyamanoramā and Dhārākalpa; Hindī ṭīkā by Sukhadeva Vaidya, Gaṅgāviṣṇu Śrīkṛṣṇadās, Lakṣmīveṅkaṭeśvar Cāpākhānā, Bombay 1916/17. [BL.14044.a.11].