A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.408

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846 Cat. IO Nr. 2720. 847 P.K. Gode (1944–45). Compare P.V. Sharma's Foreword to Bhagwan Dash (1994), where Ratnapāla is called Ratnapati. 848 The name is spelt in different ways: Ṭāka (Kane I.2, 800; C. Vogel, IL 376), Ṭāka or Ṭākā (Cat. IO Nr. 2745), Ṭākā (P.K. Gode, 1944–45), Ṭīka or Ṭīkā (printed text), Ṭīkā (AVI 389). 849 The printed text has Kāchā, with a variant Kāṭhā. 850 According to introductory verse 5 of the *Madanapārijāta* (P.K. Gode, 1944–45). C. Vogel, IL 376: the modern Kathah in the Meerut District. V. Śukla I, 219: Kāthgodām in U.P. See on other identifications: Bhagwan Dash (1994): Preface VII. 851 He is called thus in the stanza at the end of each varga. The colophon of the MS of the *Śiśurakṣāratna* by his son Pṛthvīmalla (Cat. IO Nr. 2720) describes him as *śrīpaṇḍitapārijātakaṭṭaramalleṭyādiviruda*. 852 C. Vogel, IL 376. Compare ABI 427; CESS A 3, 350–351; Kane I.2, 802–804; R. Roth (1876). Bhagwan Dash (1994) gives the year 1374. 853 See on this work: DGV IV, 282–283; P.V. Sharma (1971c): 99–106, and his edition of the work: *Mādhavadravyaguṇaḥ* (*Bhāvasvabhāvavāda*); sampādakaḥ Dr. Priyavrataśarmā, Vidyābhavan Āyurveda Granthamālā 72, Vārāṇasī 1972. This ed. is based on three MSS; variants are recorded in footnotes and at the end of the work. P.V. Sharma, to whom it was unknown that four MSS of the *Bhāvasvabhāva* had already been described (see G.J. Meulenbeld, 1974: 14–15, and A. Roṣu, 1977: 184), discovered two new MSS (Bharatendu Collection of the Bhārat Kalā Bhavan of BHU, Vārāṇasī, S1, Nr. 5895, accretion Nr. B 3773 = Cat. BHU Nr. 66; *Sarasvatī Bhavan Library of BHU, Vārāṇasī, Nr. 1/143–85627) and also made use of a MS of *Ṭodarānanda's Āyurvedasaukhya* (from the collection of the late Paṇḍit Rām Prasād Śarmā, Rājavaidya of Paṭiālā), which contains the whole text without mentioning its author (see P.V. Sharma's Intr. to his ed., 5–8). Compare also Check-list Nr. 142, where two MSS are recorded (*Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Nr. 178; *Oriental Institute of Baroda, Nr. 645). A MS of a work called *Dravyaguṇaratnamālā* by an author whose name is Mādhava (NCC IX, 179; Cat. Skt. MSS N.–W.P. 1, Nr. 28) is said to contain rules for preparing different medicines and their benefits. If this statement concerning the contents of the work is correct, it is not identical with the *Mādhavadravyaguṇa* and must be a different work. 854 CC I, 449 (*Mādhavadeva's Bhāvasvabhāva*); III, 89 (idem). Bodleian d.723(11); see D. Wujastyk (1990): 95. The title of the work is *Bhāvasvabhāvavāda* according to one of the introductory verses. The colophons call it *Śrīdravyaguṇa* or *Śrīmādhavābhidhānadravyaguṇa* (depending on the MS). The author, who calls himself Mādhavakavi in the last verse of his work, is called Mādhavakāra by Vopadeva and Hemādri, Mādhava or Mādhavakāra by Śivadāsasena, Mādhavakāra by Niścalakara, Mādhavakāra or Mādhavakāra by Kṛṣṇadatta (see the authors quoting the work). 855 The number of verses varies in the MSS. 856 MS Nr. 1/143–85627 of the *Sarasvatī Bhavan Library* of Vārāṇasī (see P.V. Sharma's ed., Intr. 7). 857 The Paris MS has nineteen vargas (A. Roṣu, 1977: 184), but may be incomplete. 858 This *śreṣṭhavarga*, a short list of eight verses enumerating which item is the best of a series with a common quality, was certainly inspired by Ca.Sū.25.40, the well-known long list of items wich are *śreṣṭha* in a particular respect.