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82 The number of verses is 875 in CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 197; ed. b has 934 verses. 83 Editions a and b have twelve chapters. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 196 and Cat. Oxford Nr. 1603 have ten chapters (the Bālatantra seems to be missing; the last chapter describes kālajñāna and the chāyāpuruṣa); Samaratha’s commentary on the Rasamañjarī is also divided into ten chapters. 84 See, e.g., 7.1–7. 85 Compare on the contents: V. Śukla I, 170–171; this author gives the contents of a version in ten chapters (the Bālatantra belongs to chapter nine; chapter ten describes kālajñāna and the chāyāpuruṣa) and a pariśiṣṭa chapter with recipes against some diseases (this chapter contains an arka against bahumūtra, i.e., polyuria). 86 Mercurial products are described as beneficial to human beings, elephants and horses. 87 See on vajra as a term for the diamond: J. Gonda (1954): 82–83. 88 Chapter six has 377 verses in edition b and contains some formulae found in chapter seven of edition a. 89 Chapter seven has 31 1/2 verses in edition b. 90 Chapter nine has 88 verses in edition b. 91 The author refers to his teacher who taught him medicinally valuable rasayogas (6.2). 92 A recipe that prevents ejaculation (9.1–2); these verses are also found in the Kāmaratna (4.65–66). 93 Rasamañjarī 9.40–41 (on dveṣa). 94 STMI 438. 95 JAI 157. 96 STMI 441. 97 CC I, 495 and 519. 98 STMI 180. 99 Yogaratnākara 415 (the formula of candrakalārasa, absent from ed. a). 100 Yogatarangiṇī 80.79–84 (candrodayarasa, said to be called makaradhvaja in the Rasamañjarī, ed. a of the Rasamañjarī does not contain this formula; compare the makaradhvaja of 7.9–12); 15.1–2 (said to be from the Rasamañjarī in the Hindī comm. of ed. a of the Yogatarangiṇī). 101 Bṛhadyogatarangiṇī 41.37cd–38ab (= Rasamañjarī 3.41), 42–45ab (= Rasamañjarī 3.43cd–44), 45cd–49 (= Rasamañjarī 3.47cd–52ab); 44.25–29 (25–27 = Rasamañjarī 11.5–7; 29 = 11.29) and 30–40 (= Rasamañjarī 12.1–12); 48.4–7 (4–5 = Rasamañjarī 11.4). 102 CC II, 116 and 182: title Tilaka. 103 CC I, 495. STMI 177. Cat. Skt. MSS N.-W. P. I, Nr. 4 (by Rāmanātha). Rāmanātha Vaidya wrote commentaries on the Ajīrṇamañjarī, Arkaprakāśa, Aṣṭāngahṛdaya, Mādhavanidāna, Rasamañjarī, and Rasendracintāmaṇi. 104 See JAI 149–151 and R. Jain (1981): 88. The (incomplete) MS of Samaratha’s commentary is kept in the Abhayajain Library in Bīkāner. 105 This second series consists of the kañcukas of other treatises; the term kañcuka occurs at Rasamañjarī 1.28 and 36. 106 This long series is unusual. 107 Other texts adding karbura to the more usual seven varieties of vaikrānta are the Rasaprakāśasudhakara and Rasendracūḍāmaṇi. 108 Formulae, not found in the Rasayogasāgara, are, for example: rājamṛgāṅkarasa (36–40),