A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.409

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859 Intr. to his ed., 10–11. The *Mādhavadravyaguṇa* contains some verses taken from the *Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha* (P.V. Sharma’s Intr., 11). 860 AVI 385. In the Intr. to his ed. (11) he is more prudent in observing that either Mādhava borrowed from Soḍhala or the latter from the former. 861 Ad *Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā* II.2.19 (= śākavarga 29) and 171cd–173ab (= maṇḍavarga 7 and 8); III.8.58 (source not mentioned). 862 Ad A.H.Sū.6.75cd–78 (= śākavarga 29); 6.81 (= śākavarga 24cd); 6.97cd–98ab (śākavarga 17cd–18ab); 6.99cd (= śākavarga 19); 6.137cd–138 (= phalavarga 38–39ab). 863 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. (12, n.3) to his edition of the *Mādhavadravyaguṇa*. 864 Ad *Cakradatta*, jvara 31–32 (= *Dravyaguṇa* 26.3ab) and agnimāndya 5 (= 25.7). 865 Ad *Cakradatta*, jvara 31 (= annavarga 3) and agnimāndya 5 (a reference to maṇḍavarga 7 and 8). 866 See P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed. of the *Mādhavadravyaguṇa*, 12, n.3. 867 *Mādhavadravyaguṇa*, śākavarga 29 is quoted ad *Siddhamantra* 5. 868 Intr. to the ed., 12; AVI 385. 869 See: *Paryāyaratnamālā*. 870 Ad *vanauṣadhivarga* 114 (= śākavarga 27d). 871 It is quoted by Aḍhamalla, Hemādri, Kṛṣṇadatta, and Vopadeva. Anantakumāra (*Yogaratnasamuccaya* 8.525) also quotes it, adding to have taken it from the *Saṃgraha*. 872 See Ṭoḍara’s *Āyurvedasaukhya*. Ṭoḍara quotes the *Mādhavadravyaguṇa* as *Bhāvasvabhāva*. 873 See G.J. Meulenbeld (1989). See on bhaṅgā also: V. Ball (1889–1891): 393–394. 874 The *Mādhavadravyaguṇa* is one of the earliest works mentioning opium. See on opium in Indian culture and its uses in medicine: W. Ainslie (1826): I, 271–277; E. Balfour (1968): III, 28–39; G.N. Chaturvedi, S.K. Tiwari and N.P. Rai (1981); R.N. Chopra (1928); R.N. Chopra et al. (1930); R.N. Chopra and G.S. Chopra (1935); R.N. Chopra, G.S. Chopra (1932) and K.S. Grewal (1932); R.N. Chopra and I.C. Chopra (1955), (1957); R.N. Chopra and N.N. Ghose (1931); R.N. Chopra and K.S. Grewal (1927); H. Drury (1978): 327–331; J. Megaw (1946): 205–206; G.J. Meulenbeld (1984c): 95–96; Garcia da Orta’s *Colloquy* XLI; J. Tod (1920): II, 749–750. See on opium in Islamic medicine: A. Demirhan (1980). See also on *Papaver somniferum* Linn. and its products: DWH I, 73–108; Nadkarni I, 901–922; G. Watt VI, 1, 17–105; WIRM VII, 233–248. 875 A tuberous plant, probably a *Dioscorea* species. 876 Also mentioned in the *Madanapālanighaṇṭu* (6.21). 877 A kind of big *Momordica cochinchinensis* Spreng. = *M. mixta* Roxb. (MW). 878 Unidentified. 879 See, e.g., G.J. Meulenbeld (1974): 13–15. Compare Haraprasād Śāstrī (1901): 10: “The *Bhāvasvabhāva* is a well-known medical work by Mādhavadeva, perhaps the same as Mādhavakara, the author of the *Nidāna*”. 880 CC II, 103. 881 Compare CC II, 56 and NCC X, 179. 882 See M.A. Stein (1894): 183 (Nr. 3165); compare P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., 15–17. 883 P.V. Sharma’s Intr. to his ed., 17. 884 Intr., 5–6, 11–12. 885 Sarvānanda wrote his *Ṭīkāsarvasva* on the *Amarakoṣa* in 1159 (C. Vogel, IL 315). 886 See the Intr. to his ed.; compare AVI 384–385 and P.V. Sharma (1993): Intr. 40.