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193 Bhudeb Mookerjee asserts (Preface, XXIV, to volume V of the Rasajalanidhi) that he consulted a MS of the Rasendracintāmaṇi that mentions as its author king Rāmacandra of the Sūrya dynasty, son of Daśaratha and disciple of Kālanātha. Bhudeb Mookerjee is also of the opinion that the Rasendracintāmaṇi consists of an old layer in elegant verse and a later one, mainly in prose. 194 HIM III, 845–850. 195 C. Dwarkanath (1991: 43; both authors are said to belong to the fourteenth century). G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 470–471: Ḍhuṇḍhukanātha is placed in the fifteenth, Rāmacandra in the sixteenth century). S.K. Śarmā (1992: 18 and 19: Rāmacandra Gupta is assigned to the thirteenth, Ḍhuṇḍhukanātha to the fourteenth century). P.V. Sharma (AVI 461–462). 196 See the beginning of the Rasendracintāmaṇi in ed. d. 197 HIM III, 848. Vṛddhatrayī 471. VŚS, Preface 7. 198 CC I, 511. This Rasapradīpa is probably the Rasaratnapradīpa of Rāmarāja. 199 CC I, 511. STMI 452. 200 Vṛddhatrayī 471. 201 HIM III, 848. VŚS, Preface 7. The Rādhāvinodakāvya is a work of Rāmacandra, son of Janārdana (CC I, 505; Krishnamachariar, 1989: 302). 202 Dates assigned to the Rasendracintāmaṇi are: twelfth century (R.C. Majumdar, 1971: 233), thirteenth or fourteenth century (P. Rāy, 1956: 206), fourteenth century (S. Ārya, 1984: 82; Bhagwan Dash, 1986: 14; C. Dwarkanath, 1991: 43; J. Filliozat in L. Renou et J. Filliozat, 1953: 169; Satyaprakāś, 1960: 566), fifteenth century (ABI 320), later than the fifteenth century (G.P. Srivastava, 1954: 119), earlier than the sixteenth century (STMI 452), and sixteenth century (AVI 462–463). Compare the views on the dates of two texts called Rasendracintāmaṇi. 203 CC I, 497 and 735. Check-list Nr. 681. STMI 461. Cat. Calcutta Sanskrit College X, Nr. 54. Cat. Sarasvati Bhavan XII, Nr. 45067. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 229: incomplete, contains adhyāyas 1–7 and part of 8, appears to be very old. Editions: a śrī somadevaviracito rasendracūḍāmaṇiḥ, āyurvedīyagranthamālā sampādakena ācāryopāhvena trivikramātmajena śrīyādavaśarmaṇā sampāditaḥ, āyurvedācārya śrī jayadeva vidyālaṅkāreṇa saṃśodhitaḥ ṭippaṇyā samupaskṛtaś ca, Bombay Saṃskṛta Press, Lahore 1932 [IO.San.D.1411(c)]. b ācārya somadeva kṛta rasendracūḍāmaṇiḥ, ‘siddhipradā’hindīvyākhyāsahitaḥ, hindīvyākhyākāraḥ Dr. Siddhinandana Miśra, Jayakṛṣṇadāsa Āyurveda Granthamālā 57, Vārāṇasī/Dillī 1984. Some extracts from the Rasendracuḍāmaṇi, accompanied by an English translation, are found in P. Rāy (1956): 151–152 and 351–354. References are to ed. b. 204 Compare on the contents: Atrideva (1961): 104–105; S.C. Banerji (1992): 161–162; V. Śukla I, 153–157; D.G. White (1996): 158–159. 205 See on 1.6–14: A. Roṣu (1997b): 412–414 (annotated French translation). Chapter one closely follows the first chapter of the Rasārṇava in structure and content according to D.G. White (1996): 158–159. 206 The Kaulikas are the followers of the Kula or Kaula tradition of Śāktism. 207 The eight siddhis are mentioned at 1.6. The Kaulikas are described as beef eaters (gomāṃsabhakṣa) at 1.7; this expression, not to be taken literally, because it is an example of sandhābhāṣā, is elucidated at 1.9ab, where it is explained as the technique of moving the