A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.725

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1633 In the introductory verses and at the end of each taraṅga, the prabandha called Mahārṇava is said to be a work of Māndhātar, son of Madanapāla, but it remains a mystery how it became associated with Māndhātar, since it is referred to as one of Madanapāla's works in the introductory verses of the Smṛtikaumudī (Intr. to the ed., 14), and was later called Madanamahārṇava. See also P.V. Kane I.2, 794–795. 1634 Māndhātar's genealogy is described in the introductory verses, which almost literally agree with Madanapāla's genealogy as given in the introductory verses of his Madanapārijāta (P.V. Kane, I.2, 794). Cf. Madanapālanighaṇṭu. 1635 As stated in the colophon of each chapter. 1636 Chapters one to seven are called the paribhāṣākhaṇḍa (see the colophon of chapter seven), often referred to as paribhāṣā in chapters eight to forty, but M.R. Nambiyar (Intr. to the ed., 22) regards chapters two to four as the paribhāṣāprakaraṇa. The assertion (BDHM 1, 3, 1963, 161) that the Mahārṇava may have been larger than the part preserved, because a paribhāṣāprakaraṇa is referred to by the author, is evidently wrong. 1637 Many sources are quoted in the work by name (see the list at the end of the ed.); the most important are the (Caturvarga)cintāmaṇi (by Hemādri), many Purāṇas, the Karmavipāka-saṃgraha, Karmavipākasāra, Karmavipākasamuccaya, and the Śātātapīya(karmavipā-ka). 1638 See on karmavipāka: W.D. O'Flaherty (1980b): 14–15. 1639 There is no apparent order in the arrangement of the diseases. A long series is also enumerated in the apāmārjanastotra of chapter seven. The Mahārṇava recognizes many disorders which are absent from medical treatises, such as dakṣiṇāṅga- and vāmāṅgavraṇa, vakraṇā-satva, nīlalocanatva, kapilākṣatva, piṅgalekṣaṇatva, karṇakubjatva, vakrakaṇṭharoga, dīrghagalatva, hrasvapāṇitva, etc. 1640 See the beginning of chapter five. 1641 See the beginning of chapter two; quoted from the Śātātapīyakarmavipāka. 1642 NCC I, 410; X, 149: author of the Nirṇayāmṛta, a dharmaśāstra work. 1643 NCC IV, 275–276. 1644 CC I, 441. 1645 Variants of this name are Peḍḍi or Peṭṭi Bhaṭṭa (CC I, 588) and Peddibhaṭṭu (BDHM 1, 3, 1963, 160; B. Rama Rao, 1978: 10–11). 1646 P. Hymavathi (1993): 69–71: Siṅgabhūpāla, a great scholar himself, who had the title sarvajña, is the reputed author of the Rasārṇavasudhādhikara (see CC I, 497); this work may actually have been composed by Viśveśvara; it dates from before A.D. 1360, because it is mentioned in the Alaṃkārasudhānidhi, attributed to Sāyaṇa (see NCC I, 406–407). See also on Siṅgabhūpāla or Siṅgaya Nāyaka: H.A. Mehendale and A.D. Pusalker (1980): 485; M. Somasekhara Sarma (1945): 29–30, 74–75, 93–95. 1647 See on Viśveśvara: P.V. Kane I.2, 799–800. 1648 P.V. Kane I.2, 804. 1649 He is also called Bopadeva.