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831 Absent from the list of vol. II. A quotation (4.100–101) on the size of the jīva. 832 A quotation (4.25–26) on pitta and agni. 833 Absent from the list of vol. II. A quotation (2.230) on the ten elements of jīvita. 834 Add 4.53–55 (from the Videhasaṃhitā) to the list of vol. II. 835 A quotation (3.194–195) on regimen during the seasons. 836 CC I, 581 and III, 123: several works of this title. A quotation (2.8–12) on the five types of vāyu. 837 CC I, 477: several works of this title. Quoted (4.128) on the ratios of rajas and śukra leading to the conception of a male or female child. Add 4.15–16 to the list of vol. II; 4.15–16ab, said to be from the Yogapradīpa, is also found in the Bhelasaṃhitā (Śā.4.16–17ab). 838 Quoted (6.140–154) on the forecasting of the date of someone's death by means of the vaikuṇṭhīdvādaśākṣara; from Śrīkaṇṭha's Yogaratnāvalī? 839 CC: not recorded. Quoted (4.125–126) on the subject of garbhādhāna. 840 II: 3.303–306 = Cārucaryā 185–188. 841 II: 6.8–10 = Kaṇāda 22–24; 14cd–15ab = Kaṇāda 30; 19 = Kaṇāda 93 and 104ab, etc. 842 II: 6.4ab = Rāvaṇa 8ab; 5ab = Rāvaṇa 6ab; 7 = Rāvaṇa 11; 12 = Rāvaṇa 76; 16–17 = Rāvaṇa 75, etc. 843 These comments resemble those found in the Madhukośa on the Mādhavanidāna, without being identical. 844 Compare the examples in the Madhukośa ad Mādhavanidāna 1.8–9. 845 III: 1.37–39 = Ca.Ni.8.20–22 (unidentified by the editors). 846 The numbering of the chapters shows some discrepancies in the MSS (see Preface to vol. VI, p.VII). 847 Chapter thirteen on emetic and purgative therapies forms part of chapter eight on materia medica of the Āyurvedasaukhya. 848 Compare Ṭoḍara IX: 4.300a–d and Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā II.10.3. 849 This verse is identical with Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā III.11.121. 850 Compare Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā III.11.124–127. 851 Compare 1.405 and Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā II.9.9. 852 Identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 4.6. 853 Compare 1.496–497 and the closely related Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 4.2; 1.499 is identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 4.3. See about the fees of physicians: P. Hymavathi (1993): 173–175. 854 Compare Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 5.5–7. The pestle is called gharṣa in the Rasendracūḍāmaṇi. 855 Identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 5.8. 856 Compare Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 5.9–10ab. 857 A nāgadoṣa (see 2.22). 858 A nāgadoṣa (see 2.23). 859 A nāgadoṣa (see 2.22). 860 A nāgadoṣa (see 2.23). 861 This verse is close to Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 2.13–14ab. 862 See on cinnabar: J. André and J. Filliozat (1986): 366–367; D. Joshi (1986): 174–177. Cinnabar and other mercurial ores are not native to the Indian subcontinent; the names of cinnabar indicate that it was of foreign provenance; darada refers to Daradadeśa, the modern Dardistan, hinguḷa to Hinglāj in Baluchistan or to a country called Hingula (see D.G. White, 1996: 65–66). 863 See on bhasmans of various colours: U.Ch. Dutt (1922): 29–31.