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181 Nāgadamana or śivaliṅgī (commentary ed. d). 182 Identified as Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1688). 183 This is one of the names of apāmārga, Achyranthes aspera Linn. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 29). 184 The same as kukundara (commentary ed. d). 185 A variety of śarapuṅkhā (commentary ed. d), identified as one or more species of Tephrosia (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nrs. 1594, 1597, 1598, 1601). 186 Identified as Alpinia galanga (Linn.) Willd. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 95). 187 A kind of vacā (commentary ed. d). 188 The same as śvetāluka (commentary ed. d). 189 The same as añjira (commentary ed. d). 190 A kind of grass (commentary ed. d). 191 The same as jyotiṣmatī (commentary ed. d). 192 A kind of aśvattha (commentary ed. d). 193 The same as raktapunarnavā (= punarnavā) (commentary ed. d). 194 Identified as Amaranthus tricolor Linn. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 111). 195 This may be Momordica dioica Roxb. ex Willd. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1123). A kind of sūraṇa (commentary ed. d). 196 A foreign plant or saptaparṇa (commentary ed. d). 197 The same as raktekṣu (commentary ed. d). 198 The fruit of jaipāla (commentary ed. d). 199 A kind of eraṇḍa (commentary ed. d). 200 The author's father is sometimes called Saṅghagupta (Cat. IO Nr. 2724; ed. k), which may be due to a confusion with Nityanātha, the author of the Rasaratnākara, who is occasionally referred to as the son of Śaṅkhagupta or Saṅgagupta (P. Cordier, 1896: 8). The Rasaratnasamuccaya is in some of the MSS attributed to Aśvinīkumāra (J. Jolly, 1901: 4, C.G. Kashikar 4; A.B. Keith, 1973: 512; M. Winternitz III, 553), Nityanātha (CC I, 496; P. Cordier, 1896: 8; A. Roṣu, 1989: XCIX), and Somadeva (P. Cordier, 1901d: 149; A. Roṣu, 1989: XCIX). 201 The colophons of many editions call the author Vāgbhaṭa. 202 S. Ārya (1984: 76–77) gives a list of a number of authors accepting or rejecting this identity. See also Atrideva (1978: 208; N. Kumār and B. Pāṇḍey (1982). 203 See Jaggi IV, 135; P. Rāy (1956): 165. 204 G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 299–300) was even convinced that the original version of the Rasaratnasamuccaya belongs to the third century. 205 P. Cordier (1901d): 149–150. 206 See his Pratyakṣaśārīra I, 54–55. Gaṇanāthasena noticed the borrowings from Rasendracūḍāmaṇi and Rasahṛdaya. 207 AVI 459–461. P.V. Sharma argues that the Rasaratnasamuccaya may date from the middle of the thirteenth century, because one of the formulae (16.120–126: vaiśvānarapoṭalirasa) is ascribed to Siṃhaṇa, one of the Yādava kings of Devagiri (first half thirteenth century); this formula, however, is attributed to a king of Siṃhala in ed. d, and a king of Siṃhala is also referred to at 16.137; a Kālayavana, mentioned in another formula (26.38), is identified by P.V. Sharma as a Muslim fakīr. 208 S. Ārya (1984): 76–79. This author adduces that the plant names hiyāvalī and gopālakarkaṭī, found in the Rasaratnasamuccaya, are absent from the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā and Aṣṭāṅgasamgraha; gopālakarkaṭī is a plant mentioned by Soḍhala (Gadanigraha, kāya 29.61), hiyāvalī is a name occurring in Ḍalhaṇa's commentary on the Suśrutasaṃhitā (see Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1982: 222).