A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c61.156

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748 Replaced by styānavāta (108). 749 Compare gṛdhrasī of the Mādhavanidāna (22.54–56; 22.54–55ab = Ca.Ci.28.56–57ab). 750 Compare Su.Ni.1.77; kaṭivāta appears to be identical with kikkasa of the list. 751 Compare Mādhavanidāna 22.20ab = Su.Ni.1.27ab (sirāgatavāta) and 22.53 = A.h.Ni.15.37cd–38ab (sirāgraha). 752 This term is in other āyurvedic treatises often a synonym of either ūrustambha or vātarakta; the latter disease is absent from the Basavarājīya. 753 Compare sandhigatavāta of the Mādhavanidāna (22.21cd = Su.Ni.1.28ab). 754 Compare ardita of the Mādhavanidāna (22.44–48ab = Su.Ni.1.68–72). 755 This disease is described in Telugu. 756 An exception is vraṇāyāma, not described in the Mādhavanidāna. Some disorders absent are tūnī, pratitūnī, aṣṭhilā, and pratyaṣṭhilā, which are dealt with in chapter nineteen of the Basavarājīya. 757 Not found in the list, but probably the same as sarpika. 758 This is in conformity with their number in Vāgbhaṭa's works. 759 These varieties are jihvikā-, padminī-, nandā-, vāsinī-, mohinī-, dāhinī-, kālarātrī-, and kṣobhiṇī markaṭī. 760 Their number is sixty-five in the Suśrutasaṃhitā, fifty-six in the Mādhavanidāna. 761 See on special features of the Basavarājīya also ABI 330–334; AVI 295–296; P. Hymavathi (1993): 91. 762 NCC XIII, 244–245. See the last colophon of ed. c: the name of the author is Nīlakaṇṭha, his place of residence Koṭṭūru in Āndhra Pradeś. A Madras MS (Cat. Madras Nr. 13380; on the preparation of vijayasindūra, from the Vṛṣarājīya) calls the author Basava, of Nīlakaṇṭhavamśa. C. Dwarkanath (1991: 43) refers to the author simply as Basava. 763 See the opening verses of each prakaraṇa. 764 See the opening verses of chapters nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-five (liṅgamūrtim ahaṃ bhaje), and fourteen (basaveśam ahaṃ bhaje). 765 See the opening verse of chapter fourteen: śrījaṅgameśapādābjahṛṅgam...ahaṃ bhaje. The Vīraśaiva priests are called jaṅgama. 766 ABI 333–334. 767 See p. 142. 768 China root, the same as sarsaparilla or cobacīnī, is referred to as phiraṅgicekka (see P. Hymavathi, 1993: 91). 769 S.K. Śarmā (1992: 18) places the work in the eleventh, C. Dwarkanath (1991: 43) in the twelfth century. 770 NCC X, 178. Cat. München Nr. 383. P. Peterson, Report, Preface XXII. 771 NCC X, 75; XI, 239: quoted by Śrīharṣa in his Amarakhaṇḍana (eighteenth century; see C. Vogel, IL 318) and Veṅkaṭārya in his Śabdārthakalpataru (CC I, 601 and 635). 772 NCC III, 354–355; X, 7, 119–120, 303. See on this text: T. Goudriaan (1978); T. Goudriaan and S. Gupta (1981): 122–123; Tāntrika Sāhitya 105–107. See on the author: Nityanātha's Rasaratnākara. Alternative titles of this treatise are Kāmatantra, Kāmaratnākara, and Siddhaḍākinī. 773 There are at least sixteen editions. Some of these are: a in Indrajālavidyāsaṃgraha, Calcutta 1915, 22–131 (author's name Nāgabhaṭṭa); b Kamaratna Tantra, edited by Pandit Hemchandra Goswami Tattabhusan, published under the orders of the Government of Assam, Assam Government Press, Shillong 1928; this edition, in Bengali script, is accompanied by an English translation;