A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.451

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307 See 16.194. 308 The author claims (16.194) that their number is 1,741. The text of the MS described by R. Mitra (Notices VII, Nr. 2546) contains 2,092 verses. 309 STMI 193: a treatise in verse and prose in thirteen chapters. Cat. BHU Nr. 216: the text is divided into ten ullāsas. 310 This is the same as uṣahpāna, i.e., the practice of drinking water in the early morning immediately after getting up. See on this subject: B. Rama Rao (1980). 311 See, e.g., 2.45; 3.25; 12.60; 13.91. 312 Pañcavaktrarasa (1.82–83); śītīrirasa (1.155–158); lāyīcūrṇa (2.45–48); kanakarasa (2.49); parpaṭīrasa (2.67–69); ajīrṇakaṇṭakarasa (3.12–13); kumudeśvararasa (4.37–39); svacchandabhairavarasa (6.103–105); sūtādyamodaka (12.55–57); māṇikyatilakarasa (12.58–65); hiṅgulādilepa (12.75–78). The formulae of the rasas of the Vaidyavinoda are taken from unknown sources and are not found in the Rasayogasāgara. 313 E.g., the nālikāyantra (6.84), pakvamuṣā (13.60), and vālukāyantra (13.60). 314 He was a son of Bhīma and Hiḍimbā. 315 See 18. In the body of the work only a granthāntara (5.81; 16.4), a Purāṇa (1.37), and the Viṣṇupurāṇa (15.271) are quoted. Some formulae are ascribed to ancient authorities like Bhāradvāja (phalaghṛta: 15.185–195), Kāśyapa (a recipe against kīṭaviṣa: 15.284–285), and the Nāśatyas (māṇikyatilakarasa: 13.58–65). 316 CC I, 516 and 613. Ramanātha Vaidya wrote commentaries on eight medical works (see STMI 177–178). STMI (193) records a Stabaka and a Tippaṇa on the Vaidyavinoda. 317 See JAI 155. 318 See Ca.Sū.18.27; Ca.Ci.3.287cd–288ab = A.h.Ci.1.149 = A.s.Ci.2.107 = Mādhavanidāna 2.25. 319 They are distinct in the Mādhavanidāna (chapter 50). 320 Sūryasaṃkrānti denotes the entrance of the sun into a new zodiacal sign. 321 The term masūrī also occurs in the section on visphoṭa (13.123). 322 Identified as Trapa natans Linn. var. bispinosa (Roxb.) Makino (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1632). 323 This may be an error for uṣṭrakaṇṭa. 324 Dimness of vision. 325 The same as dhundha. 326 A bivalve shell? 327 No particulars are known. See: Rasaśāstra texts. 328 CC I, 624 and 626. No particulars are known. A Śaṃkarākhya is quoted in the Yogaratnākara. 329 See 1.2 and 16.92. The author is called Śaṃkarasena, son of Ānandasena, by Umeśacandragupta (VSS, Preface 7). Aufrecht calls the author of the Vaidyavinoda Śaṃkara Bhaṭṭa, son of Ananta Bhaṭṭa (CC I, 613; II, 147); NCC I, 176: idem. 330 See 1.3–6 and 16.193. 331 S.L. Katre (1944): 68–69. 332 See G.S. Sardesai (1984): 261–263. 333 CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 284. 334 Momin Ali (1990: 153) mentions A.D. 1705 as the year of completion of the Vaidyavinoda.