A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c61.455

v4.c61.455

1359 CC: not recorded. STMI 196. Cat. Madras Nr. 13243: a medical treatise dealing with the development of the foetus in the womb and with the various kinds of ailments which a human being is subject to; the work, referred to as Śārīrakagrantha, is divided into five chapters: cakrādhyāya, piṇḍotpatti, garbhotpatti, tridoṣotpatti, and marmasthānāni; described are the six cakras, those parts of the human body in which one of the mahābhūtas predominates, the number of diseases affecting particular organs or regions of the body (the numbers differ from those usually found in āyurvedic treatises), etc. A.F.R. Hoernle (1978: 61–65) gives an analysis of the skeleton, as described in an anonymous Śārīra (the text is contained in *MS Nr. 167 of the Tübingen University Library; see Hoernle, 1978: 216–217, for the verses on the skeleton and their translation); its osteology is, in particular, taken from the Yājñavalkyasmṛti (see Hoernle for a number of deviations); the text quotes Caraka, the Kaulāvalinirṇaya (see NCC V, 114: by Jñānānanda), the Lauhapradīpa, and the Yogamuktāvalī. B. Rama Rao (1984).