A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c61.6

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⁴ The work has wrongly been described as a treatise on eye diseases (Cat. IO Nr. 2714; Bhagavat Sinh Jee, 1927: 207; Gulabkunverba I, 75; S.K. Ramachandra Rao, 1985: 16; G.P. Srivastava, 1954: 33). The title is explained in the first verse, where the treatise, simply called Añjana there, is said to have been composed by Agniveśa as a collyrium (añjana) for physicians whose eyes are covered by the darkness (timira; this term also denotes an eye disease causing cloudy vision) of ignorance. The title Añjana recurs in the last two stanzas.