A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.308

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8 A synonym of mayūratuttha. 9 Dhānyābhraka is made in the following way: powdered mica, mixed with śāli rice (dhānya), is tied in a piece of cloth; this bundle is to be kept immersed in kāñjika for three days; on rubbing and pressing the bundle in the liquid, very minute particles of mica will come out and deposit themselves at the bottom of the vessel holding the kāñjika; the mica in this form is called dhānyābhraka (see Rasajalanidhi II, 9). 10 Bhāvanā is a procedure in which powdered drugs are ground or pasted with liquids to dryness (see D. Joshi, 1991a: 328). 11 The literal meaning of this term is: burnt diamond, but D. Joshi (1991a: 176) remarks that it is one of the names of vaikrānta. 12 References are to ed. b. 13 The Rasadrakhaṇḍa has twenty chapters in the Wellcome MS. The titles of chapters one to sixteen are: (1) sarvarogasādhyasādhyasādāraṇalakṣaṇa; (2) atisāracikitsā; (3) trayodaśasampinātacikitsā; (4) dehaśodhanavamanavirekavastinasyarasapathayāpathayavidhi; (5) rājarogacikitsā; (6) kāsaśvāsahidhmānivāraṇa; (7) pāṇḍuśobhananivāraṇa; (8) vātavyādhinivāraṇa; (9) aśmarīmūtrakṛcchranidānanivāraṇa; (10) sarvakuṣṭhanidānanivāraṇa; (11) visarpinivāraṇa; (12) mehacikitsā; (13) udarādiśūlacikitsā; (14) bhagaṇḍarādigandalūtādinivāraṇa; (15) arśonivāraṇa; (16) grahaṇīcikitsā (see D. Wujastyk, 1984a: 72). 14 Many of the āyurvedic recipes are found in earlier works; a few examples are: cāṅgerīghṛta (grahaṇī 122–125 = Vṛnda's Siddhayoga 4.27cd–29), kalyāṇaguḍa (grahaṇī 117–121 = Siddhayoga 4.38–42), navāyasalauha (pāṇḍuroga 27.28 = Ca.Ci.16.70–71). 15 Many of these verses are from Ca.Sū.9 and 10, but they begin here with a maṅgala addressed to Śiva and his Śakti. 16 See jvara 115–149 (several mantras); unmāda 50–51; prose between śārīravraṇa 19 and 20; sūtikā 13–14 and 24–25; bālaroga 78; viṣa 8, 18, prose between 32 and 33. 17 See sūtikā 29: the well-known ubhayatrimśaka- and ubhayapañcadaśakayantras. 18 See the glosses ad arśas 128–139. 19 See the glosses ad āmavāta 80, prameha 69, vidradhi 16 and 20, visarpa 16, netraroga 15. 20 See, for example, the gloss ad visarpa 22. 21 References are to ed. h; this edition is based on the Goṇḍal MS of the (complete) Rasaratnākara. Edition i contains chapters one to eighteen; its text and the number of verses of some chapters differ from ed. h. The Vādikhaṇḍa is referred to as Vādakhaṇḍa in Rasakhaṇḍa 1.5; the colophons of eds. h and i call it Vādikhaṇḍa; the colophons of ed. h mention Ṛddhikhaṇḍa as an alternative title. See a study of the Vādikhaṇḍa: *Svāmināthamiśra (1991). 22 Compare Rasārṇava 11.180. 23 See on the meaning of varṇa (the colour of the streak of the touchstone): S.R. Sarma (1983a). See also on the assaying of gold by means of the touchstone: M.K. Pal (1978): 255. See on the technique and the criteria applied: Arthaśāstra 2.13.17–24. 24 A preparation used in the bandha of mercury and with which the crucible is plastered. See Pāradasaṃhitā 6.255–281. 25 Compare Rasajalanidhi I, 85. 26 See on svarṇabīja: Pāradasaṃhitā 25.11. 27 This form of mercury, made with bhūnāga preparations, is endowed with a very strong appetite for numerous substances; it is therefore called rākṣasa- and vaḍavāmukha.