A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.316

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915 This verse is very close to Rasārṇava 6.126ab and 127. 916 This verse is very close to Rasārṇava 6.128. 917 Cf. Rasārṇava 6.129. 918 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.175ab = Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 10.65ab; compare 4.175 and Rasārṇava 6.132. 919 Identified as a type of copper sulphate. See D. Joshi (1986): 128–131. 920 Cf. 3.166. 921 These categories may be found for the first time in a Tamil text, the Cilappadikāram (see A.K. and S. Biswas, 1996: 76). 922 The male ones have well-defined facets, edges and angles, the feminine ones are concave, flat or cylindrical, the napuṃsaka ones are spherical or blunt at the tips and slightly heavy (see A.K. and S. Biswas, 1996: 77). 923 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.214–215 is closely related to Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 5.19–20. 924 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.251–254 is closely related to Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 5.31cd–35. 925 Identical with Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 5.36. 926 See A.K. and S. Biswas (1996): 76–77. 927 Identified as lapis lazuli. See on lapis lazuli in India: E. Balfour (1967): II, 679–680; D. Joshi (1986): 219–221; G. Watt IV, 587. 928 Identified as a type of borax. 929 Identified as borax. See on borax: W. Ainslie (1826): I, 44–46; U.Ch. Dutt (1922): 81–82; Hobson-Jobson (s.v. tincall); D. Joshi (1986): 181–182; G. Watt I, 504–511; WIRM II, rev. ed., 199–202. 930 See D. Joshi (1986): 166–168. 931 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.269–270 = Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.92–93. 932 Identified as arsenic. See D. Joshi (1986): 168–170. 933 Identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.94. 934 This verse is almost identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.95. See on navasāra: D. Joshi (1986): 170–171. 935 This verse is almost identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.97a–d. 936 Identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.97e–f. 937 Identified as cowrie shells. See D. Joshi (1986): 171–172; A.K. Nadkarni (1954): II, 158–159. 938 Compare 4.275–279 and some closely related verses of the Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.98–102. 939 Identified as ambergris. See D. Joshi (1986): 172–173. 940 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.281–282 = Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.103 and 104c–f. 941 Identified as the red oxide of mercury. See D. Joshi (1986): 173–174. 942 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.283–284 = Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.105–106. 943 Identified as lead oxide. See D. Joshi (1986): 177–178 (mṛddāraśṛṅga). 944 These verses are very close to Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.111–112, where boddāraśṛṅgaka is described; the reading vedāra instead of bod(d)āra is not known from other texts. 945 Identified as a type of copper sulphate. Compare the substances called amṛtāsamjña (Ci. 7.114) and amṛtāsaṅga (Sū.3.10; Ci.14.55 and 25.117) of the Carakasamhitā. 946 Identical with Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.113. 947 See on kaṅkuṣṭha: D. Joshi (1986): 162–164. 948 Ṭoḍara IX: 4.292–296ab = Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.69–73; 4.296cd and 297 are closely related to 11.74ab and cd. 949 Identified as iron sulphate. See on kāsīsa: W. Ainslie (1826): I, 529–532; U.Ch. Dutt (1922): 55; D. Joshi (1986): 152–155.