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44 See Yādavaśarman's Nivedanam to ed. a ; Yādavaśarman based his opinion on the colophon of the Bikāner MS. Compare S. Ārya (1984: 107) and AVI 462. 45 The kṣmāśīgru, mentioned by Bindu (verse 10), is interpreted by Mahādeva as an item peculiar to Mahārāṣṭra. Mahādeva's commentary contains a few vernacular names of plants (ad 157 and 165) which may also be of Marāṭhī origin. 46 CC I, 495; III, 106. AVI 469. V. Śukla I, 169–170. An anonymous Rasapradīpa, accompanied by a Hindī ṭīkā, is recorded by R. Mitra (Notices I, Nr. 148: a collection of prescriptions; compare STMI 179: by Sarasvatī?). Edition: rasapradīpaḥ (anekagranthasaṃgṛhītaḥ), verīgramānivāsīsīvasahāyaputraravidattaśāstrikṛta bhāṣāṭīkāsahitaḥ, Lakṣmīveṅkateśvar Steam Press, Bombay 1935. 47 The majority are also found in other works; compare the Rasayogasāgara. 48 Zinc is not mentioned. 49 The same series of seven upadhātus is found in the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (II.11.53cd–54ab). 50 CC I, 474 and 495; II, 110 and 115. STMI 465. Editions: a śrīyaśodharaviracito rasaprakāśasudhākaraḥ, ācaryopāhvena trivikramātmajena yādavaśarmaṇā saṃśodhitaḥ prakāśitaś ca, Āyurvedīya Granthamālā, dvitīyam puṣpam. *1st ed., 1910; 2nd ed., Nirṇayasāgar Press, Bombay 1923 (this edition also contains Kāyastha Cāmuṇḍa's Rasasaṃketakalikā) [IO.San.C.303; 9.C.22]; this edition is based on three MSS from private collections (see Yādavaśarman's bhūmikā). b ed. in Bhāratīyarasāyanaśāstra (together with Kākaṇḍīśvaritantra), compiled by Viśveśvaradayālu Vaidyarāja, Harihara Press, Etawah 1930 [IO.San.B.986(c)]. c śrī yaśodharaviracitaḥ rasaprakāśasudhākaraḥ, sa ca rājavaidya paṃ. jīvarāma kālidāsa śāstri kṛta gurjarabhāṣāṃtara sahitaḥ, Rasaśālā Granthamālā, granthāṅkaḥ 10, Rasaśālā Electric Printing Press, Goṇḍal 1940. d ācārya yaśodhara kṛta rasaprakāśasudhākaraḥ, ‘siddhiprada’hindīvyākhyā sahitaḥ, vyākhyākāraḥ: Dr. Siddhinandana Miśra, Jayakṛṣṇadāsa Āyurveda Granthamālā 54, Caukhambhā Orientalia, Vārāṇasī/Dillī 1983. References are to a, 2nd ed. The title of the treatise is not mentioned in the body of the work, but in the colophons only. Some passages from the Rasaprakāśasudhākara were edited and translated into English by Prafulla Chandra Rāy (P. Rāy, 1956: 153–154; 355–362: extracts from the Sanskrit text). 51 Compare on the contents: S. Ārya (1984): 65–67; Atrideva (1961): 106–107; S.C. Banerji (1992): 143–144; Satyaprakāś (1960): 435–463; V. Śukla I, 160–162; D.G. White (1996): 159–160. 52 The description of bīḍa is added (84). 53 See on the bandha of mercury, i.e., its solidification: A.K. Caudharī and C.B. Jhā (1998); D. Joshi's notes to his translation of Rasaratnasamuccaya 11. 54 The same as poṭa(bandha). 55 Cf. 2.70cd–107. 56 The same as the substance called rasasindūra in other treatises (see the footnote in ed. a). 57 A parpaṭī is a preparation of mercury and sulphur, made by melting a kajjalī on a slow fire and pressing it into thin flakes (see D. Joshi, 1991a: 328). 58 Its essence is identical with copper (tāmrarūpa; 5.77). 59 The ghanasāraka variety is omitted in many treatises. 60 S.K. Śarmā (1992: 211) remarks that karpūraśilājatu is identified as potassium nitrate, called kalmī sorā in Hindī.