A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.650

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418 Compare nāsūra, found in Harṣakīrti’s Yogacintāmaṇi and Hastiruci’s Vaidyavallabha. Nāsūra is a Hindī word for an ulcer. 419 A painful disease affecting the knees; it is related to raktavāta. Compare raṅghaṇivāta, found in Haramekhalā and Śrīkaṇṭhapaṇḍita’s Hitopadeśa, and raṅghiṇī, a synonym of gṛdhrasī according to Dalhaṇa (ad Su.Ni.1.74). 420 Another name for arbuda. 421 A mahāvraṇa of the hands. 422 A vāta disease, also called śītavāta, which affects the whole body. 423 See: Pītāmbara. 424 See: Pītāmbara. 425 See the concluding verses (saṃvad aṣṭādaśe cābde aṅkāgnivarṣasaṃyute). Other dates mentioned for its completion are 1782/83 (AVI 315) and 1811/12 (JAI 162). 426 CC: not recorded. Check-list Nr. 875. 427 CC II, 111. Check-list Nr. 1054. STMI 265. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 178. Cat. IO Nr. 2709 (compare F.R. Dietz, 1833: 160). Editions: a yogaratnākaraḥ; kuṇṭe ity upābhvaiḥ aṇṇāmoreśvara ity etaiḥ kṛtena prastāvena sametaḥ; ed by Mahādeva Cimaṇājī Āpaṭe; puṇyākhyapattana (Poona), ānandāśramamu-draṇālaya, ānandāśramasaṃskṛtagranthāvali 4, 1889 [IO.27.G.1]; *2nd ed., 1900. b Yogaratnākara, a treatise on medicine compiled from various sources; translated into Kannada and Telugu by the Pandits of the Government Oriental Library, Mysore, Government Branch Press, Mysore 1889 [IO.20.K.12]. c yogaratnākara (vaidyaka-granthaḥ), navare ity upābhidha-kṛṣṇa śarmaṇā saṃśodhi-taḥ, Nirṇayasāgar Press, Bombay 1907 [IO.21.E.33]; *2nd ed. 1919; 3rd ed., 1926; *4th ed., 1932. d marāṭhī bhāṣāntara; bhāṣāntarakāra vaidyarāja datta ballāla borakara, parts I, II; Ya-śavanta Press, 1st ed., Poona 1917 [IO.12.L.26–27]; 2nd ed., Poona 1923 [IO.San.D. 467/12]. e with Gujarātī translation by Jethālāla Devaśaṃkara Dave, Part I, Bhāgyodaya Print-ing Press, Ahmedabad 1927 [IO.San.D.510]. f yogaratnākaraḥ, śrīyuta vidyādhara vidyālaṃkāra viracita ratnagarbhā nāma bhāṣā-ṭīkā sahita; 2 vols., Motīlāl Banārsīdās, Lahore, 1st ed. 1931. g yogaratnākaraḥ, ‘vidyotinī’ hindī ṭīkā sahitaḥ, ṭīkākāraḥ: āyurvedācārya vaidya śrī lakṣmīpati śāstrī, sampādakaḥ: bhiṣagratna śrī brahmaśamkara śāstrī, kāśī-saṃskṛta-granthamālā 160, caukhambhā saṃskṛta sīrij āfis, banāras 1955; *2nd ed., 1973; ed. 1988; *h ed. by Paṇḍit Sadāśiva Śāstrī, Haridās Sanskrit Series Nr. 108. i ed., with Vaidyaprabhā Hindī commentary, by Indradeva Tripāṭhī and Dayāśaṅkar Tripāṭhī, Kṛṣṇadās Āyurveda Series 54, Kṛṣṇadās Academy, Vārāṇasī 1998. References are to page numbers of ed. g. The name of the treatise is only mentioned in the last verse. See on the Yogaratnākara: N. Saxena (1992), (1995). 428 Some verses are composed in a laboured manner (see ABI 310–312 for some examples). 429 The general outline of the work resembles that of the Bṛhadyogatarangiṇī. 430 Actually, nine types of examination are described: nāḍī-, mūtra-, mala-, śabda-, sparśa-, rūpa-, dṛk-, āsya-, and jihvāparīkṣā. See on the examination of the pulse in the Yogaratnā-kara: N.P. Rai et al. (1979): 116–120; N. Saxena (1992): 20–24; Sarvadeva Upadhyaya (1986): 58–63. The verses on aṣṭasthānanirīkṣaṇa are found, accompanied by an English translation, in S.K. Ramachandra Rao (1987): III, 149–162.