A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.294

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677 The sharp instruments (śastra) enumerated and described are: vṛddhipattra, kuśapatra, maṇḍalāgra, vṛhīmukha, kuthārākṛti, vatsadanta, utpalapattra, śalākā, sūcī, and rampaka (III.30). See on these instruments: A. Krishnaswami Ayyar (1939a), (1939b) (with drawings illustrating the form of the instruments). The instruments called vatsadanta (a knife with a scoop resembling the tooth of a calf) and rampaka (a drawing knife) are absent from Su.Sū.8; śalākā is not a śastra in the *Suśrutasaṃhitā*. Other instruments mentioned are: phāla-, jāmbava-, tāpikā-, and darvyākṛti, followed by siṃhadaṃṣṭra, godhāmukha, kaṅkamukha, and kulīśamukha (see the drawings of the last four in A. Krishnaswami Ayyar, 1939a, 1939b).