A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c60.8

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1 See the quotations (in Sanskrit) in G.P. Upadhyay (1997). 2 NCC: not recorded. Edition: Indian science of pulse (Bhāratīyanāḍīvijñāna), compiled in Sanskrit by Rajvaidya Kaviraj Prabhakar Chatterjee, M.A., Jyotirbhusan, Visagacharya, Principal, Calcutta College of Ayurveda, with English translation by the author, Calcutta 1934. References are to page numbers of the edition. 3 The only source indicated is Dattarāma's Nāḍīdarpaṇa; fourteen ślokas (30–43) are borrowed from it. 4 Bhūdharabhaṭṭa's Nāḍījñānadarpaṇa may also have been one of the author's sources, since some verses on pages 9–10 are identical with Nāḍījñānadarpaṇa 56–59 and most of the stanzas on page 22 with verses 50–53 of the same work. 5 See p.28. 6 Compare Nāḍījñānadarpaṇa 63–65. 7 This view was put forward by Dattarāma in his Nāḍīdarpaṇa. 8 Diseases included in this list are, e.g., yonivyāpad and (yoni)kanda (86), somaroga (87), masūrikā and romāntikā (88), plīhajvara (91), udañmeha (96), and vradhna (97). The longest list known to me of characteristics of the pulse in various diseases is found in a series of articles by Ekendranath Ghosh in the Journal of Ayurveda 4 (1927–28), 453–460; 5 (1928–29), 13–20, 66–75, 340–347; 6 (1929–30), 104–111, 151–158, 166–176, 260–269, 334–340, 454–463; 7 (1930–31), 12–19, 50–60 (more articles belonging to this series were apparently published in earlier volumes of the Journal of Ayurveda). 9 CC: not recorded. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr. 42135. 10 NCC: not recorded.

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*Deccan College, Pune, MS Nr. 7587 (see D.V. Pandit Rao, 1984). P.M. Jinavijaya (1976): Serial Nr. 2743, Accession Nr. 22027. 11 NCC X, 29. See on this work: S. Upadhyaya (1986): 40. 12 NCC X, 27: title Nāḍivijñānīya. STMI 151: title Nāḍivijñānīya. Cat. Tanjore Nr. 11193: title Nāḍivijñānīya. S. Upadhyaya (1986: 40) mentions that a copy of the Tanjore MS has been deposited in the Vaṅgīya Sāhitya Pariṣad. Edition: Nāḍicakram (with Tamil translation and an Introduction in Tamil), ed. by K. Vāsudevaśāstrī and K.S. Subrahmanyaśāstrī, Saraswati Mahal Library Series No. 68, *1st ed., Tanjore 1955; 2nd ed., Tanjore 1990. The edition is based on MS Nr. 11193 of Cat. Tanjore. References are to the 2nd ed. The title, Nāḍīcakra, is mentioned in verses four and nine, as well as in the colophon. 13 Compare on the contents: S. Upadhyaya (1986): 40–41. 14 This number is mentioned in the Haṭhayogapradīpikā (4.18) and many Tantric works (see, e.g., M. Eliade, 1960: 240; D. Snellgrove, 1987: I, 296). Other numbers are also found (see A. Avalon, 1953: 110; M. Eliade, 1960: 240; O.P. Jaggi, 1973: V, 62). 15 Karṇika is one of the sources of the Nāḍīvijñāna (NCC III, 186). 16 The diseases revealed by these methods are called sparśa-, praśna-, and darśanaroga, terms unknown from the classical āyurvedic literature. 17 The tastes enumerated are kaṭu, tikta, uṣṇa, lavaṇa, madhura, and amla; kaṣāya is omitted and replaced by uṣṇa, which is a vīrya in āyurvedic theory. 18 Probably nocturnal emissions.

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19 Literally: the coming out of (part of) the intestine. This disorder may be a prolapsus. 20 See Su.Ni.1.80 on pādadāha. See also: J. Grierson (1826). 21 An otherwise unknown term. 22 An otherwise unknown disease; it may be the same as ādhmāna (tympanitis). 23 See about the kanda: A. Avalon (1953): 148, 320. 24 See on these three nāḍīs: Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇa 1 and the commentary of Kālicaraṇa (see A. Avalon, 1953: 320–326 and the corresponding Sanskrit text). See also S. Dasgupta (1975): II, 352–355. 25 See on this subject: A. Shanmuga Velan (1963): 64. 26 See on this subject: E. Ghosh (1928). 27 Āyurvedic theory does not connect the sour taste with kapha, nor the saline taste with pitta. 28 Related names of a group of ten nāḍīs are found in other texts on nāḍīśāstra; see, for example, the Nāḍījñānadarpaṇa. A group of ten main nāḍīs is frequent in Tantric literature, but other numbers are also recorded, for example, fourteen (Śivasamhitā 2.13–15), twenty-four, thirty-two, and seventy-two (see D. Snellgrove, 1987: I, 296). See on the nāḍī system and its interpretation: S. Dasgupta (1975): II, 352–355; S.B. Das Gupta (1974): 153–158; A. Roy (1930). 29 See on the six cakras: Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇa and its commentary (edited and translated by A. Avalon, 1953). See also: A. Avalon (1953): 103–180; S. Dasgupta (1975): II, 355–357; B. Seal (1985): 219–225. 30 The diseases located in the seven layers are sidhman, alasa, carma(kuṣṭha), kilāsa, kuṣṭha, gaṇḍamālā, and vidradhi.

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Compare Ca.Śa.7.4, Su.Śā.4.4, A.Śā.5.17, which disagree with the Nāḍicakra. 31 Fever is said to be of sixteen types: seven doṣic varieties, five irregular fevers, and four āgantu fevers. 32 These verses on udāvarta are from an unidentified source. 33 These verses are from an unknown source. Verse 272 enumerates four garbharogas: upaviṣṭakagarbhaka, nāgodara, mallaka, and mūdhagarbha. 34 The lowest of the cakras. See A. Avalon (1953): 154, 331–356; S. Dasgupta (1975): II, 355; O.P. Jaggi (1973): V, 64. 35 I.e., the anāhatacakra. 36 The Haṭhayogapradīpikā (4.73) mentions a viṣṇugranthi at the throat, where the viśuddhacakra is located. R.K. Sen (1966: 363) says that the anāhatacakra is called viṣṇugranthi (= harigranthi), while the ājñācakra is known as rudragranthi. 37 The uppermost of the cakras. See A. Avalon (1953): 420–459; O.P. Jaggi (1973): V, 64–65. 38 C. Dwarkanath (1991: 43 and 157) placed the work in the twelfth century, much earlier than the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā, composed, in his opinion, in the first part of the fourteenth century. 39 NCC: not recorded. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nrs. 41891 and 41893. 40 NCC X, 27. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr. 41890: catalogued under the title Nāḍīcakra, but the first line indicates that it should be called Nāḍicakranirṇaya. 41 NCC X, 27. Cat. Madras Nr. 13341. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr.

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41892: catalogued under the title Nāḍicakranidāna, but the colophon indicates that it is chapter eleven, called Nāḍicakravidhi, of the Jñānayogakhaṇḍa of the Śrīsūtasamhitā, i.e. the Sūtasamhitā of the Skandapurāṇa (see CC I, 730; III, 150).