A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c61.179

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994 See on Kāñcinātha's commentary: R. Schmidt (1911): 67–68. 995 CC I, 526. STMI 182: Rāyasimha may have been the sixth king of Bīkāner, who came to the throne in A.D. 1573. Cat. Bīkāner Nr. 1433: the MS ends with chapter thirty-one on the therapy of mūrchā, pānātyaya, and mada. 996 Some works on rasaśāstra are attributed to Revaṇasiddha (see: Rasaśāstra texts: Rasa-darpaṇa, Rasarājalakṣmī, Rasarājaśiromaṇi, as well as a lost Vaidyanighaṇṭu (Rājkumār Jain, 1981: 89). 997 CC: not recorded. Check-list Nr. 998. STMI 182. Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr. 42572: catalogued as Vīrabhaṭṭīyamahāśāstra; Nr. 42890: catalogued under the title Sarvalokahita, but the colophon shows that it may be the first chapter of the Vīrabhaṭṭīya. AVI 313. See on more MSS and a description of the work: B. Rama Rao (1990). 998 NCC: not recorded. This is an alternative title, occurring in the colophons of one of the MSS examined by B. Rama Rao (1991). 999 The information on the contents is derived from B. Rama Rao (1991). 1000 The component parts of this figure are medical authorities and works: Kalyāṇa, Bheṣajakalpa and Dravyaśuddhi are the three heads, Sūtrasthāna, Nidāna and Śārīra the three eyes, Cūḍāmaṇi, Kāpālin, Candraja (compare Candrajñāna of the list in chapter one), Kārmaka (compare Kārmukhi of the list), Nāgārjuna, and Kṛṣeya (compare Kṛṣṇeya of the list) are the six arms, Caraka, Sākhara (compare Śākhara of the list), Śākta (compare Śākteya of the list), and Yāmala are the four faces, Rasārṇava, Bāhaṭa, Vasiṣṭha, Vīrabhaṭṭaka, Rasaputra, Indrasāra (compare Indrasata of the list), Sūtaraia, and Yuṣma(?) (compare Yuṣmini of the list) are the eight legs. 1001 These ten kinds of vāyu characterize the work as being influenced by Tantrism. 1002 Details on the meaning of some of these terms are not available. Puruṣa- and strīlakṣaṇa (characteristics, usually having prognostic significance, of men and women) are well-known subjects, dealt with in various types of texts, for example: Agnipuraṇa 243–244, Bṛhatsaṃhitā 67–69, the Lakṣaṇaprakāśa of the Vīramitrodaya, etc. These topics form part of sāmudrikaśāstra (see M.R. Bhat's translation of the Bṛhatsaṃhitā, II, 599). 1003 A copy of MS Nr. 5824 of the Adyar Library, Madras (see V. Krishnamacharya, 1944: 118). 1004 Probably alchemical rasas. 1005 The same as Vāgbhaṭa. 1006 NCC VI, 353. 1007 CC: not recorded. 1008 NCC: not recorded. 1009 CC: not recorded. 1010 CC: not recorded. 1011 See: Rasaśāstra texts. 1012 Compare the list of component parts of the mythical physician. 1013 CC: not recorded. An incomplete MS of this text is available in the Oriental Research Institute, Mysore (B. Rama Rao, 1991: 3). 1014 B. Rama Rao (1991): 3. A Revaṇasiddhakalpakapa and Revaṇasiddhabhāṣya are quoted in the Basavarājīya. A Revaṇasiddhajvaracikitsā forms part of the MSS collection of the Oriental Research Institute, Mysore (Cat. Mysore XIII, Nr. 42408: the text begins with the treatment of karuṇajvara and ends with vājīkaraṇa); the same Institute possesses a MS of a Revaṇasiddhakalpa by a Jain author (B. Rama Rao, 1990: 3).