A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c60.2

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1 NCC: not recorded. AVI 445. 2 See the description of this work. 3 NCC: not recorded. AVI 445. *Edition: Aligarh 1950. 4 NCC V, 209. Edition: bṛhatpākāvalī, saṃgrahakartā tathā ‘manoharī’ vyākhyākartā rāja-vaidya paṇḍita śrīgaṅgāprasāda śarmā, parikṣartā śrīśyāmasundara śukla vaidyaśāstrī, 1st ed., Navalakīśora Press, Lucknow 1904 [IO.2654]; 4th ed., Lakhnaū 1951. References are to page numbers of the edition of 1951. 5 The bhūmikā to the edition mentions Pūjyapāda as one of the sources. 6 Also called arkakarabha (8) and kallaka (99). 7 Called ahiphena(ka), āphūka and vyālaphena. 8 The seeds are called khasabīja and khasaphala, the seed capsule is designated as khākasavalka. 9 Piper cubeba Linn.f. 10 Also called cīnīcopa. 11 Also called khurāsānikā. 12 Also called rūmikāhvaya. 13 Identified as Blepharis persica (Burm.f.) Kuntze = B. edulis Pers. (P.V. Sharma, 1997). 14 See the bhūmikā to the first edition (1904). 15 See the description of this work. 16 NCC: not recorded. Edition: Candrikā Press, Poona 1886 [IO.432]. 17 NCC IX, 374, 375, 376; XII, 1. Check-list Nr. 529. STMI 166: Pākadarpaṇa, without author's name. Cat. Sarasvati Bhavan XII, Nr. 44973. Cat. Tanjore Nr. 11237. Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram, Nr. 1055: Nalapāka. AVI 445. HIM II, 488–490. Edited by Vāmācaraṇabhaṭṭācārya, 1st ed., Vidyāvilāsa Press, Vārāṇasī 1915 [BL.14049.ddd.1; IO.San.D.388(i)]; 2nd ed.: mahārājanalaviracitam pākadarpaṇam, ‘mādhurī’-hindīvyākhyāvibhūṣitam (prācīnatama āyurvedīya svasthavṛtta evam pākaśāstra kā viśiṣṭa grantha), vārāṇasīstha rājākīyasaṃskṛtapāṭhaśālīnyāyāśāstrādhyāpakena nyāyācāryapaṇḍitaśrīvāmācaraṇabhaṭṭācāryeṇa saṃśodhitam, ‘mādhurī’-hindī vyākhyākāra Dr. Indradeva Tripāṭhī, Kāśī Saṃskṛta Granthamālā 1, Vārāṇasī 1983. References are to the second edition. Pākadarpaṇa is the title mentioned in the text itself (1.21). 18 Nala is referred to as an expert in the culinary art in Śīlāṅka's Caüppaṇṇamahāpurisacariya (p.38). An Aśvaparīkṣaṇa is also ascribed to Nala (see: Veterinary texts). 19 Mostly ślokas; many verses at the end of chapter and some stray stanzas are composed in longer metres. 20 The table of contents in the text of the treatise (1.28–32) refers to a division into sixteen chapters (the numbers between brackets are those of the chapters in the edition): odana (1), sūpa (1), sarpis (1), vyañjana (1), māṃsa and śāka (1), bhakṣya (3), pāyasa (4), rasāyana, pāna (4 and 5), yūṣa (6), ghṛtādyanna (7), lehya (8), pāniya (9), kṣīra (10), dadhi (11), and takra. Chapter two of the edition (on ṛtudharma) is absent from this list; the chapters on rasāyana and takra, mentioned in the table of contents, do not form part of the printed text.