A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.20

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71 Compare the muṇḍikalpa of the Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (29) and Rasaratnākara (IV.4. 64–66). 72 Compare the devadālikalpa of the Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (47), Rasaratnākara (IV.4. 67–72), Rasārṇava (12.179–182), and Rasārṇavakalpa (517–545). 73 Compare the śvetārkakalpa of the Gaurīkāñcalikātantra (138–150), Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (44), Rasaratnākara (IV.4.73–75) and Rasārṇavakalpa (302–322). 74 Compare the hastikarṇakalpa of the Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (6). 75 Compare the rudantīkalpa of the Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (39) and Rasaratnākara (IV.4. 80–84ab), as well as the rudravantīkalpa of the Rasārṇavakalpa (591–603). 76 Compare Gaurīkāñcalikātantra (101–120) and Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (23). 77 Compare Rasaratnākara IV.4.101–107ab. 78 Seven varieties of pathyā (= harītakī) are described: vijayā, rohiṇī, pūtā, trivṛtā, amṛtā, jīvantī, and abhayā, growing in Vindhyadeśa, Kānyakubja, Saurāṣṭra, the Himālaya, the banks of the Ganges, Kāśmīra, and Vainyadeśa respectively (I.15.140cd–143ab). 79 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (34). 80 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (26). 81 Treatments with pippalivardhamāna are described. 82 Compare Gaurīkāñcalikātantra (88–92) and Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (30). 83 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra: bhūkadambakalpa (45). 84 Compare Gaurīkāñcalikātantra 96–100. 85 Compare Gaurīkāñcalikātantra (151–154) and Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (25). 86 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (7). 87 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (28) and Rasārṇavakalpa 251–256. 88 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (15) and Rasārṇavakalpa 242–250. 89 Compare Rasārṇavakalpa 261–301. 90 Four varieties of guggulu are distinguished: kumuda, padmaka, mahiṣākṣa and hemākhya (305cd–306). 91 This kalpa, the longest of the series, describes the origin of vijayā (Cannabis sativa Linn.), its varieties, names, characteristics and uses, nine disorders caused by its abuse, and the treatment of these disorders. The female and male plants are described; the author of the treatise was acquainted with the intoxicating properties of the female plants; gañjā is one of the synonyms of vijayā. See on the vijayākalpa of the Ānandakanda: Bhagwan Dash (1978): 141–157. See on the history of Cannabis in India: G.J. Meulenbeld (1989). 92 Twenty-four varieties of somalatā are mentioned; several regions are enumerated where the plant grows; some of these localities are the mountains called Arbuda, Devagiri, Devasaha, Malaya, Mahendra, Prabhāsa (to the north of the river Vitastā), Sahya, Śrīparvata, Tuṣāra, and Vindhya, and the lakes called Devasūtahrada, Kṣudramānasa (in Kaśmīr) and Sindhuhrada (in Pāñcāla) (524 and 527–530). A complicated and protracted treatment is described, resulting in rasāyana; kuṭīpraveśa, known from the Carakasamhitā, is one of its essential elements. 93 Tuvaraka is said to grown near the western ocean (I.15.588). 94 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (38) and Rasārṇavakalpa 604–611. 95 Compare Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra (4). 96 This vandākalpa is one of the Dravidian elements of the Ānandakanda according to Rādhākṛṣṇaśāstrī (see his bhūmikā to the edition, 14). Compare the vandākalpa of the Kācacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra.