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70 Rendered as ‘Precepts radiating from the valley of light inside the body’ by Rechung (1973: 11–12). An alternative translation may be ‘Emanations (hphro-ba) from the valley (lun) of light (hod) consisting of precepts (khrims) concerning the interior of the body (khog)’ (the sense of byan is not clear). 71 See: commentaries on the works of Vāgbhaṭa. 72 See: commentaries on the works of Vāgbhaṭa. 73 NCC VI, 355–356. Kavindrācāryasūcipatram, Nr. 1033 (Madanādinighaṇṭa). Candranandana does not mention the name of his nighaṇṭu. The colophons of the Kottayam edition call it Madanādinighaṇṭu, a title easily explained since the first drug described is called madana. Edition: Candranandana’s Madanādi-nighaṇṭu, ed. by Aṣṭa Vaidya Vayaskara N.S. Mooss, Vaidyasarathy Sanskrit Series, Book No. 8, Kottayam 1985. This edition is based on four MSS, three from South India and one from Paris (see the Intr. to the ed. 11–17); it does not present the viprakīrṇadravyaprakaraṇa, because of the bad state of this part of the text in the only MS containing it that was available to N.S. Mooss. A fifth MS, deposited at the Asiatic Society, Calcutta (*Nr. G.8426) was examined by P.V. Sharma. His observations on this MS (see his articles: 1985b and 1986b) show the title of the work to be Madanādinighaṇṭu; as an alternative title, Gaṇanighaṇṭu is written on the margin in a different hand. P.V. Sharma also discovered that the Calcutta MS resembles the Paris MS very closely, which indicates a common source for both. The readings of the Calcutta MS enabled P.V. Sharma to improve numerous readings of the Kottayam edition and to fill part of its gaps. The section on miscellaneous drugs (viprakīrṇadravya) forms part of the Calcutta MS and of one of those from Kerala. It has been separately edited by P.V. Sharma. The Miscellaneous portion of Madanadi Nighantu of Chandranandana, Supplement to BIIHM 16, 1986, published in 1987. Unfortunately, neither N.S. Mooss nor P.V. Sharma made use of the quotations from the Madanādinighaṇṭu and the synonyms found in Candranandana’s Padārthacandrikā to improve the readings of the text they edited. 74 NCC III, 96; V, 239; VI, 355–356: Oṣadhinighaṇṭu or Gaṇanighaṇṭu; recorded separately from the Madanādinighaṇṭu. Check-list Nr. 295: Gaṇanighaṇṭu. STMI 44: Oṣadhinighaṇṭu. P. Cordier (1901c: 185) referred to Candranandana’s nighaṇṭu as Gaṇanighaṇṭu, and once, erroneously, as Guṇanighaṇṭu (1903b: 350). The work is called Gaṇanighaṇṭu in J. Filliozat’s list of MSS of the collection P. Cordier in Paris (Liste Nr. 31), although the title page of the MS itself clearly indicates its title as Gaṇanighaṇṭu (see Intr. 14 to the Kottayam ed.); the Paris MS is a copy of a MS preserved in the Palace library of Bikaner (see Intr. 17 to the Kottayam ed.). A Gaṇanighaṇṭu by Candranandana, mentioned by Bāpālāl Vaidya (1968, Intr. 37) is probably a misprint for Gaṇanighaṇṭu. 75 See preceding note. 76 The Tibetan translation of the Madanādinighaṇṭu (see below) only contains the synonyms. 77 Actually, Vāgbhaṭa describes thirty-three groups (see A.h.Sū.15.46), which was a source of confusion to N.S. Mooss (see the Intr. to his ed. 14–6; compare N.S. Mooss, 1980: 25), who tried to solve the difficulty, in conformity with a tradition prevalent in Kerala, by splitting up gaṇa six, the dūrvādigaṇa, into two groups, a dūrvādigaṇa proper and a sthirādigaṇa. P.V. Sharma gave a different and more convincing explanation by pointing out that gaṇas five and six, the bhadrārvādi- and dūrvādigaṇa, describe drugs subduing vāta and