A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.395

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42 Ādima is either Śiva (Ādideva, Ādinātha, Śamkara), who first expounded the rasaśāstra, or it is the name of some rasācārya (S. Ārya, 1984: 27–29; Vṛddhatrayī 302). An Ādimasiddhānta is recorded in the Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram (Nr. 975; compare NCC II, 86). Ādinātha is one of the Mahāsiddhas of Mahārāma’s Haṭhayogapradīpikā, a work probably dating from the fifteenth century to C. Bouy (1994: 85) (1.5; identified as Śiva in Brahmānanda’s commentary); he is the first guru of the Nātha lineage (see G.W. Briggs, 1973); the Ānandakanda (I.3.47) mentions him as one of the Nāthas. See on Ādinātha: C. Bouy (1994): 11–12; D.G. White (1996; see index). A Rasasiddha Ādima is mentioned in the Pāradasamhitā (1.96) and Rasajalanidhi (III, 389–390); the Rasajalanidhi (III, 65) describes him as a pupil of Śukrācārya (see also V, Intr. XVI–XVIII).