A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.319

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1033 This verse is very close to Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 10.17. 1034 Compare 4.724–725 and Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 10.18–19. 1035 Compare Toḍara IX: 4.552–554. 1036 Compare 4.729–730ab and Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 10.22cd–24ab. 1037 Compare Rasaratnākara, Rasakhaṇḍa 10.25–27. 1038 The Āyurvedasaukhya has additional chapters on kṛśaroga (50), snāyu (67) and somaroga (75); the chapter on vṛddhi has been expanded (53: āntravṛddhi-kuraṇḍa-vardhma); a single chapter deals with śophavraṇa-śārīravraṇa-sadyovraṇa-nāsikāsandhāna-vahnidagdha-bhagna; see Intr. to vol. II, 19–29. The chapter on mūtraḳcchra (VI: 6) also deals with urograha; the chapter on asṛgdara (VIII: 1) discusses somaroga and mūtrātīsāra. 1039 See especially chapter four (4.823–847) of vol. III, chapters seven and eight of vol. VIII. See also A. Roṣu (1986): 243–244. 1040 See, e.g., II: 3.195 (explanations concerning names of medicinal substances), 229, 362, 376; 4.35, 45, 50, 65–66, 74; III: 1.6 and 11; 3.173–174; 4.17, 21, 371 (explanations concerning names of plants), etc.; 4.750 has been borrowed from the Madhukośa ad Mādhavanidāna 2.37–38; VI: 18.224 and 226 (glosses), 295 (a prescription in old Hindī). Prose passages are also quoted from the Suśrutasaṃhitā (see, e.g., VI: 8.109, 112, 115, 117–119). 1041 These groups (varga) are called udāsīna (neutral), mitra (friendly) and śatru (unfriendly); drugs of the mitravarga are to be added in a quantity equal to that of the medicinal substances in the recipe, those of the udāsīnavarga in half the quantity, and those of the śatruvarga in one-fourth of it. 1042 The lists compiled by the editors are incomplete. 1043 Add IV, 465. 1044 Add V, 163. The quotations from Agniveśa are partly from the Carakasaṃhitā; not infrequently they remain unidentified. The difference between quotations from Agniveśa and Caraka is not clear. 1045 Probably Nāthapaṇḍita’s treatise of that name. Quoted on cauterization (dāha; III: 3.259), the treatment of fever (4.818), and bloodletting (III: 4.863). 1046 The greater part of the quotations from Ātreya have not been identified by the editors; their source may be a version of the Hārītasamhitā in some cases (III: 2.36 is quite close to Hārītasamhitā III: 1.26, and 3.7 to III: 2.35); some quotations are from the Suśrutasaṃhitā: III: 3.9 = Su.U.39.11cd–12ab, 3.10 is close to Su.U.39.12cd–13ab. 1047 Add IV, 251: a recipe propounded by Bhāskara. 1048 V: 11.797; III: 4.970–972 (the formula of ārogyarāgīrasa). 1049 Bhāvasvabhāva is an alternative title of the Mādhavadravyaguṇa; III: 2.179–709 = Mādhavadravyaguṇa 27.25–28ab. 1050 A mantra to be recited during the digging up of a medicinal plant (V: 11.818–819). Add IV, 466 (9.90–93: the recipe called vyāghrīharītakī). 1051 The formula of siṃhāmṛtaghṛta, propounded by Bodhisattva (IV: 3.172–173). 1052 Brahmā enjoyed the effects of Nārada’s madanamodaka (IV: 2.179–187); a mantra to be recited during the digging up of a medicinal plant (V: 11.818–819); the other quotations consist of formulae. 1053 IV: 2.164–168 (Brahmasuta communicated the formula of kāmeśvaramodaka to Mahendra). 1054 On diseases in which boiled water is wholesome (III: 3.112–113); 4.1090–1094 (on the treatment of a fever that has corrupted the śukra).