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169 J.C. Sikdar (1988): 49. 170 NCC X, 30. STMI 152: the work also deals with the examination of the eyes, tongue and urine. 171 NCC X, 29. Cat. Madras Nr. 13343. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nrs. 41929–32; MS. Nr. 41929 is in the form of a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī. 172 NCC X, 30. Cat. Madras Nr. 13155: the science of pulse-examination is said to have been revealed to Pārvatī by Maheśvara; the introductory verses pay homage to Vāhaṭa. The first chapter, containing nine verses, is of an introductory nature; chapter two, consisting of seventy-five verses, deals with the nāḍīcakra system; chapter three, consisting of thirty-four verses, is about the examination of the pulse; its last verse mentions the following sources: Bharadvāja, Kāśyapa, Kauśika, Kumbhasambhava (i.e., Agastya), Mārkaṇḍeya, and Vasiṣṭha (S. Upadhyaya, 1986: 42–43). 173 Cat. Mysore XIII records nine MSS under this title (Nrs. 41894–41902); Nr. 41894 forms part of a treatise by a Jain author that may have been called Mahāsārasamgraha; Nr. 41897 is a Nāḍīnidāna of a work that dealt with aṣṭasthānaparīkṣā; Nr. 41899 is a fragment of a text that also describes other forms of parīkṣā; Nr. 41900 is concerned with nāḍīparīkṣā according to the views of Dattātreya. 174 NCC X, 28: this work may form part of the Hāritasamhitā. The Hāritasamhitā, however, does not contain a chapter on nāḍīparīkṣā. 175 NCC: not recorded. ABI 330. 176 NCC VIII, 313. See Dattātreya’s Nāḍīparīkṣā. 177 NCC X, 28. 178 This may be the same work as the Nāḍitantravidhi. NCC: not recorded. Cat. Madras Nr. 13148: this treatise forms the first chapter of a medical work called Dattātreyamata. Compare HIM II, 455–456. 179 NCC: not recorded. Cat. Mysore Nr. 41924. JAI 181: probably by a Jain author; at the beginning of the work Vīra is paid homage to; it may be the same work as a Nāḍivijñāna mentioned in the *Jain sāhitya kā bṛhat itihās (V, 232). 180 NCC X, 29. 181 NCC: not recorded. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr. 41918: catalogued under the title Nāḍilakṣaṇa, but the colophon states it to be the Dattātreyanāḍīvidhāna; MS Nr. 81900, incomplete, recorded as a Nāḍitantra, begins in the same way. 182 NCC X, 29. Cat. Madras Nrs. 13154 and 13342: the author pays homage to Vardhamāna in the introductory verses and quotes the Gadaṣamjīvinī. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr. 41925: by a Jain author; Nrs. 41926–28. See on another anonymous Nāḍivijñāna: S. Upadhyaya (1986): 41. Editions: a Nāḍivijñāna, with Telugu paraphrase and notes by N. Guruliṅga Śāstrī, Madras 1901 [BL.14043.cc.19(1)]; *b ed., with a commentary by G.K. Ray, Hitabadi Press, Calcutta. 183 NCC: not recorded. Bhagvat Sinh Jee 211: an old treatise on the pulse. AVI 250. 184 NCC VI, 205; X, 27 and 29: alternative titles are Nāḍijñāna and -mālā. Cat. Calcutta Sanskrit College X, Nr. 36 (by Govindarāma Kavirāja). Cat. Sarasvati Bhavan XII, Nr. 45018. R. Mitra, Notices VI, part 2, Nr. 2163: 173 verses. A Govindarāma is quoted in Jīvānandavidyāsāgara’s commentary on Kaṇāda’s Nāḍivijñāna; Govindarāma wrote a commentary on that work. 185 NCC III, 125–126; X, 28–29. Editions: