A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.410

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48 CC I, 256 and 597; II, 142. NCC IX, 77–78. 49 Not recorded in D. Pingree’s CESS. 50 NCC IX, 154. Check-list Nr. 821. 51 NCC: not recorded. 52 Probably gulma. 53 See on Dharmavardhana: JAI 133–134. 54 STMI 64 and 638: a treatise in 1,310 verses. R. Mitra’s Notices IX, Nr. 2927: described as a modern compilation. 55 NCC VI, 132; IX, 179. 56 CC I, 613 and 765; II, 146; III, 128 (*Vaidyavallabhā*). Check-list Nr. 954. STMI 81. H.D. Velankar (1944): I, 365. Bodleian 723(5), 725(3), 726(1), and 727(1) (see D. Wujastyk, 1990: 107). Cat. BHU Nrs. 213–215. CBORI XVI, 1, Nrs. 281–283. Collection Punyavijayaji Nr. 131 (with stabaka; five copies). Wellcome Institute γ68. Editions: a together with Lolimbarāja’s *Vaidyāvatamsa*, and with a Gujarātī transl., Diamond Jubilee Press, Ahmedabad 1900 [IO.2085]. b *vaidyavallabhaḥ*, kavivarahastirucakaviraviracitaḥ, mathurānivāsipaṇḍitarādhacandraśarmaviracitayā vrajabhāṣāṭīkayā vibhūṣitaḥ, Śrīveṅkateśvar Press, Bombay 1921/22. c *vaidyavallabhaḥ*, hastikaviracitaḥ, with Hindī commentary by Rasavaidya Māheśvara J. Vyāsa, Śrī Bhuvaneśvarī Granthamālā 116, Goṇḍal 1954; the prastāvanā describes eight MSS, preserved in the Śrī Bhuvaneśvarī Bhaṇḍār at Goṇḍal. References are to b. See on Hastiruci and his *Vaidyavallabha*: JAI 125–128. 57 R. Mitra (Notices IX, Nr. 2982) describes a MS which has a text in 294 verses. 58 Ed. c comprises 268 verses, the order and readings of which differ at many places from b; verses, absent from b, are added (e.g., 1.25–26; 2.8, 10, 19, 27–28, 34), and a number of those included in b are omitted (e.g., 2.17–18, 20, 26–27, 30–31, 33, 35, 39); chapter nine is absent. 59 Hasti (3.25; 4.20 and 21; 7.5 and 22; 8.28); Hastikavi (2.1, 2 and 27; 3.30; 4.4 and 12; 6.4; 7.34); Kavi (2.34; 3.13); Kavihasti (1.10; 2.18 and 23); Suhastikavi (6.24; 7.12); Sukavi (8.20). Kavihasti’s *Vaidyavallabha*, recorded in the NCC (III, 287), is therefore Hastiruci’s work. See on the term kavi: A.K. Warder (1989): 202–214. 60 E.g., *pañcabhadrākhyakvātha* (1.9), *tripurabhairavī guṭī* (3.6), *vajrabhedirasa* (6.1–2), *sarvakuṣṭhārirasa* (6.3–4), *icchābhedirasa* (6.5–7), *vaṅgeśvara* (8.33–36). 61 Ed. b gives at 1.25–26 the formula of *kubjakākhyakvātha*, ascribed to Caraka. 62 Compare on special features of this work: AVI 299. 63 Probably identical with *śvetapradara* (fluor albus) according to P.V. Sharma (AVI 299). 64 Also mentioned by Harṣakīrti. 65 See on this syndrome in India: J.W. Edwards (1983). 66 Tremor of the knees. 67 Identified as *Trachyspermum ammi* (Linn.) Sprague (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1624). 68 Gundi is the Gujarātī name (see WIRM II, 346) of the tree *Cordia gharaf* (Forsk.) Ehrenb. ex Asch. = *C. rothii* Roem. et Schult. (see on the nomenclature: S.S.R. Bennet, 1987). 69 The Hindī name of *Momordica charantia* Linn. 70 I.e., soda (Hindī sorā) acc. to P.V. Sharma (AVI 299).