A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.623

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1363 Mentioned in the Suśrutasaṃhitā. 1364 Identified as Melothria maderaspatana (Linn.) Cogn. by P.V. Sharma (1997). 1365 The same as ābhābabūlaka according to P.V. Sharma (1997). Regarded as the tree called barbara in the Hindī commentary. 1366 The same as svarṇakṣīrī (P.V. Sharma, 1997). 1367 An aquatic grass (Hindī commentary). 1368 A dark type of bhārgi according to the Hindī commentary. 1369 The same as guñjā (P.V. Sharma, 1997). A kind of kākamācī according to the Hindī commentary. 1370 A variety of the vegetable called poī (Hindī commentary). 1371 See AVI 351. 1372 Dried mūlaka (P.V. Sharma, 1997). 1373 A synonym of vāsā (Hindī commentary). 1374 The same as kaivartamusta (Hindī commentary) or kākamācī (P.V. Sharma, 1997). 1375 The pollen of a lotus flower (Hindī commentary). 1376 A synonym of nīvāra (Hindī commentary). 1377 A synonym of vāsā (Hindī commentary). 1378 The same as vīrataru (P.V. Sharma, 1997). 1379 The same as śvetakuṣṭha (Hindī commentary). 1380 Unidentified. 1381 Compare on special features of the Gadanigraha: ABI 280–281; AVI 289–290. 1282 Guṇasaṃgraha 1255–1256 and 1261. 1383 The Rāyakavāla (Rayekwad) brāhmaṇas are found in Gujarāt only, especially in Zālāvād and Gohilvād of Saurāṣṭra (Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1982: 625–626). 1384 Guṇasaṃgraha 1261. Bāpālāl Vaidya (1982: 626) mentions a MS of an astrological work by Soḍhala, the Siddhāntasāra (not recorded in the CC). 1385 See AVI 291 on the various readings and interpretations of Guṇasaṃgraha 1255. In the preface (2) to his ed. of the Soḍhalanighaṇṭu, P.V. Sharma takes Svaccha as the name of Soḍhala's father, whereas Atrideva (ABI 279) is of the opinion that the father was called Nandana. The name of Soḍhala's father is Nandana in a praśasti found in one of the MSS of the Gadanigraha (Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1982: 626). 1386 This view, expressed by Atrideva (ABI 279), depends on a variant reading. 1387 CC I, 734. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 60. 1388 Preface to P.V. Sharma's ed., 3. See also the praśasti, quoted by Bāpālāl Vaidya (1982: 626), which calls him a bhānupādapaṅkajaṣatpada. 1389 Acc. to Bāpālāl G. Vaidya (intr. to P.V. Sharma's ed., 24), some names of medicinal plants recorded in the Soḍhalanighaṇṭu are still current in Gujarāt nowadays, e.g., kekidaṇḍā (Nāmasamgraha 651), gippita (Guṇasamgraha 583), nāhī (Nāmasamgraha 654–655), bodāra-śṛṅgaka (Guṇasamgraha 579), and śṛṅgāriṭṭī (Nāmasamgraha 666). Compare ABI 280. 1390 AVI 181–182; 291–292; 383–384. Preface to P.V. Sharma's ed. of the Soḍhalanighaṇṭu, 5 and 6. P.V. Sharma (1993): Intr. 38. 1391 ABI 279. Preface to P.V. Sharma's ed., 6. Bapalal Vaidya (1982: 627) gives the text of the inscription, which dates from saṃvat 1256 (= A.D. 1199/1200), not from A.D. 1256. 1392 See Śārṅgadhara, author of the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā. 1393 Bāpālāl's Intr. to P.V. Sharma's ed., 23–24. 1394 Gadanigraha, prayoga khaṇḍa, cūrṇa 394 and 435–436. One of these recipes was, in a somewhat altered version, incorporated in Suṣeṇa's Āyurvedamahodadhi (see AVI 293). The *Rasaratnasamuccaya* (16.122–123; compare AVI 293) also contains a formula attributed to Simhaṇa.