A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.56

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383 11.2–3. The master-sorcerer Mūladeva, also known as Karṇisuta and Kalāṅkura, and often mentioned along with his associate and friend Śaśin, is known from Daṇḍin's *Daśakumāracarita* (see P.E. Pavolini, 1896: 177–178), the *Harṣacarita*, the *Kathāsaritsāgara* (see the Index of C.H. Tawney's translation; see also P.E. Pavolini, 1896), Kṣemendra's *Kalāvilāsa* (see P.E. Pavolini, 1898: 65, 176), Subandhu's *Vāsavadattā* (see P.E. Pavolini, 1896: 176–177), the *Śukasaptati*, and other texts (see Sukumar Sen, 1968: 681), as well as from the *Dattātreyatantra* (T. Goudriaan, 1978: 65, 342, 344). An ancient authority on erotics (kāmaśāstra) of this name is mentioned in Jyotirīśvara Kaviśekhara's *Pañcasāyaka* (1.3) (compare: J. Charpentier, 1908: 57; S.K. De, 1959: 93; Winternitz III, 541) and Kokkoka's *Ratirahasya* (5.22) (see K. Mylius, 1995: 167). An erotically stimulating recipe, called kāmnīsamdīpanamodaka, is attributed to him (*Bṛhadrasarājasundara* 550; *Rasayogasāgara*, kakārādi 183). The *Śaṇmukhakalpa*, a treatise on the art of stealing,