A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.370

v4.c62.370

Edition: śrīmahārṣiśukrācāryaviracita śukranītiḥ, ‘vidyotinī’ hindīvyākhyopetā; vyākhyākāraḥ paṇḍitaḥ śrī brahmaśaṅkaramiśraḥ, Kāśī Saṃskṛta Granthamālā 185, Caukhambhā Saṃskṛta Saṃsthāna, 2nd ed., Vārāṇasī 1987. An English translation of section seven of chapter four (by B.K. Sarkar) is reproduced in *A. Krishnaswamy (1945b). See for an elaborate study of the contents of the Śukranīti: B.K. Sarkar (1974). 824 CC: not recorded. STMI 547. 825 NCC: not recorded. B.M. Chintamani (1971): 169: this work in Prakrit gives an account of the quality of horses based on the examination of their colour, speed, physical structure and tail. Compare Durlabharāja’s Turaṅgaprabandha. 826 NCC: not recorded. Check-list Nr. 861. 827 These are variants of the name Vāgbhaṭa. 828 NCC I, 437: by Vāhaḍa. 829 NCC: not recorded. J. Filliozat, Liste Nr. 2. 830 NCC I, 443: by Vāhaḍa, son of Vikrama; accompanied by an anonymous commentary. STMI 547. Cat. Jammu Nr. 3213. 831 Vāhaḍa’s Śālihotra has been edited in India (this edition contains the text of chapters 1 to 35.57) according to A.-M. Blondeau (1972: 13). 832 See A.-M. Blondeau (1972: 20–37), who gives an analysis of the contents of the work. 833 References are to chapter numbers. 834 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): a disease of the joints, possibly amphiarthrosis. 835 The same as Jayadatta’s snehāvarti. 836 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): rolling of a horse. 837 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): diarrhoea accompanied by flatulence; the correct reading is probably vātātisāra (see also HIM II, 385). Compare on the treatment of diarrhoea in elephants: Hastividyārṇava, p.222 and 224. 838 The same as Jayadatta’s ūrdhvavarti. 839 Vibandhāvarta is probably the correct reading; compare Jayadatta’s vibandha. 840 The same as ādhmāna, flatulence. 841 The same as siṃhānaka. 842 Probably kaphoṣṭha(roga), a disease of the lips by kapha, is meant. 843 It may be the same as Jayadatta’s alāvūka. 844 The correct reading will be jihvāstambha. 845 Praṣkanna is also mentioned in Gaṇa’s Sārasaṃgraha. 846 Gaṇa’s Sārasaṃgraha mentions anuṣkanda. 847 The correct reading will be vātabalāsaka. 848 The same as Jayadatta’s āmaṇḍaka, a pādaroga (Jayadatta 39.20). Compare the disease called āmaṇḍaka in Gaṇa’s Sārasaṃgraha. 849 The same as Jayadatta’s ulūkapāda, a pādaroga (Jayadatta 39.17). 850 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): limping, accompanied by swelling of the groin. 851 The same as upajaṅgha, a pādaroga (Jayadatta 39.3). 852 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): renal insufficiency. 853 Gaṇa’s Sārasaṃgraha mentions damśapaittika. 854 Gaṇa mentions koṣṭharājī. 855 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): pharyngeal swelling. 856 A.-M. Blondeau (1972): swelling of the palate.