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76 Ṭoḍara III: 3.59 (on the treatment of fever) and 4.946–948 (somabāṇarasa); V: 11.790–791 (viṣagarbhataila) and 799 (a prescription against pāsurikāvāta, i.e., pārśvavāta); VI: 18.287–291 (a prescription); IX: 1.49 (substitutes for six plants of the group called aṣṭavarga), 485–491 (substitutes for medicinal substances which are difficult to procure); 2.192 (the preparation of the bhasman of mercury); 3.170 (the two types of iron ore); 4.690 (the characteristics of the gem called rasonikā). 77 Bṛhadyogatarangiṇī 4.11cd–18ab and 19cd–21cd (on substitutes for drugs); 42.12 (on the doṣas of mercury). 78 See: Yogatarangiṇī. 79 Vaidyacintāmaṇi 284 (gorakṣavaṭaka). 80 Bheṣajasamhitā 6, Nr. 49 (from the Rasoddhāratantra). 81 Bṛhadyogatarangiṇī 81.28–30; Yogaratnākara 377. This formula is found in many treatises (see Bhāratabhaiṣajyaratnākara II, Nr. 1584, and Rasayogasāgara, kakārādi 504). 82 The literature on Gorakṣanātha and the Nāthasiddhas is extensive. Works and articles dealing with the subject are: P.K. Bandyopadhyay (1992); A.K. Banerjea (1983); A.K. Banerjee (1979); S.C. Banerji (1992): 28–33; D. Bhārati (1968): 322–326; N.N. Bhattacharyya (1996): 248–252; C. Bouy (1994); G.W. Briggs (1973); S. Dasgupta (1946): 219–287, 442–460; S. Das Gupta (1969): 191–398; H. Dvivedi (1955); M. Eliade (1960): 299–308 and 403; J.N. Farquhar (1967); D. Gold and A.G. Gold (1984); J. Gonda (1963): 219–224; G.A. Grierson (1913); A. Grünwedel (1916): 153–155, (1970); see index); S.D. Gupta (1969): 191–255 and 367–398; O.P. Jaggi V (1973); D.P. Khakhar (1878); C. Lassen (1861): 626–629; J.K. Locke (1980): 427–443; P. Mahapatra (1972): 75–96; K. Mallik (1954); F. Nowotny (1976): 19–59; *S.C. Mitra (1927); B. Rama Rao and M.V Reddy (1982); B.A. Saletore (1937); S. Sen (1956); Mohan Singh (1937); G. Unbescheid (1980); N.N. Upādhyāya (1965); A.N. Upadhye (1969); M. Venkata Reddy and B. Rama Rao (1983); R. Venkatraman (1990): 33–40, 53–54; D.G. White (1996); H.H. Wilson (1862): I, 213–218. See also the upodghāta to volume I of the edition of the Gorakṣasaṃhitā (pages ca to ña). 83 Gorakṣa is one of the eighty-four Siddhas in Abhayadatta's work on this group; see Sempa Dorje (1998): 30–33 (Hindī translation) and 41–46 (Tibetan text). 84 The BHU MS of the Gorakṣasaṃhitā (Nr. 38) dates from A.D. 1660/61. D.G. White (1996: 157) places the Bhūtiprakaraṇa in the twelfth to thirteenth century (see his arguments). 85 See F. Nowotny (1976): 19–23. 86 *N. Upadhyaya (1977); see B. Rama Rao and M.V. Reddy (1982): 36. 87 Mohan Singh (1937): 18–22. 88 M. Eliade (1960): 301. 89 D. Sensharma (1994): 25–26. 90 Kalyani Mallik (1954): 10–11. 91 G.W. Briggs (1973): 228–250. 92 C. Bouy (1994): 15: Gorakṣa(nātha) is mentioned in the Śārṅgadharapaddhati (middle fourteenth century) and Jñānanātha's Marāṭhī Dīpikā on the Bhagavadgītā (last quarter thirteenth century). 93 AVI 306–307. 94 C. Lassen (1861): 628.