A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.35

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Vīramitrodaya, Lakṣaṇaprakāśa, p.331–346, 347–350, 347–350, 352, 353–354, 356–376, 378–386, 390–397, 399. Bṛhaspati is referred to in Godāvara's Hariharacaturaṅga and Nīlakaṇṭha's Mātaṅgalīlā (4. 4). He is mentioned in the commentary on Nārada's Gajaśikṣā and in Pālakāpya's Hastyāyurveda. Bṛhaspati and a Bṛhaspatya are among the sources of Basava's Śivatattvaratnākara. 54 Caūppaṇṇamahāpurisacariya, p.38: mentioned in a list of experts in various branches of learning (compare A.K. Chatterjee, 1978: 286). 55 CC: not recorded. The Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram records a work on horses, in Hindusthānī, by Buddhisena (Nr. 2163). 56 NCC I, 442–443. STMI 535. 57 NCC: not recorded. Cat. BHU Nr. 10: by Devīdatta, son of Abhimanyu, pupil of Śrī Rāma Bhaṭṭa; the MS dates from A.D. 1784/85. 58 NCC I, 442 and IX, 60. STMI 536. H.P. Śāstrī (1905): Preface XXIV and 151 (Nr. 1161). J. Jolly (1901): 125 (C.G. Kashikar 151). AVI 519. The NCC and E.D. Kulkarni (Intr. to his ed. of Bhoja's Śālihotra, 16) state that Dīpaṅkara was a son of Nānākara and grandson of Nidhānakara. P. Peterson (1899), Preface 24: the author was a vaidya by caste, belonging to the Kāntāravāsīnī Gāi or Gai; he appears to have been a Buddhist; his work is said to consist of 1,300 verses in ninety chapters; Śālihotra and his disciples are saluted. 59 NCC: not recorded. AVI 519: the author is called Gaṇa. Hemarājaśarman says (36) that the author refers to Śālihotra, Garga and Suśruta as authorities on the science of horses. This work may be the same as Gaṇa's Siddhayogasaṃgraha (see: Gaṇa). 60 The author was a Jain householder (gṛhastha) who lived in the twelfth century. See on him and the mentioned two works, written in Prakrit: B.M. Chintamani (1971): 169; JAI 91–92; V.P.P Śāstrī (1984): 387. B.M. Chintamani and V.P.P. Śāstrī assign him to the thirteenth century. According to R. Bhaṭṇāgar (JAI 91–92) he wrote, apart from the mentioned works, a Svapnaśāstra and a Sāmudrikatilaka, also Puruṣastrilakṣaṇa (see NCC IX, 90 and 356: Durlabharāja, son of Narasimha or Nṛsiṃha Mahattara, author of Sāmudrikatilaka or Naralakṣaṇa). Durlabharāja was a minister of Kumārapāla of the Caulukya dynasty of Gujarāt (A.D. 1143–1174); his son, Jagaddeva, who wrote the Svapnacintāmaṇi, held the same position as his father (JAI 91). Compare Jinadāsa. 61 CC: not recorded. Alternative titles are Gajaśarīkṣā, Gajaprabandha and Hasticikitsā; the treatise deals in about 1500 verses with the characteristics of elephants, the duration of their life, their conception period, diseases, etc.; it was completed in A.D. 1158/59 (JAI 91). 62 NCC: not recorded. This treatise, completed in A.D. 1157/58 according to R. Bhaṭṇāgar (JAI 91), is concerned with horses. 63 NCC V, 228. B. Jawalia (1983): 328–329 (Nr. 2946). 64 NCC V, 229. 65 NCC V, 229. 66 NCC V, 229. 67 NCC V, 229. STMI 536. 68 NCC V, 229. 69 NCC: not recorded. Check-list Nr. 289. 70 CC I, 38, 141. NCC V, 230. HIM II, 360: from the Ākāśabhairavāgama (CC I, 38; Tāntrika Sāhitya 25).