A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.771

v4.c63.771

Ārya (1984: 91) quotes a colophon which claims that the treatise forms part of the Aśvinikumārasaṃhitā; V. Śukla (I, 211–212) rejects the view that it forms part of this text. Compare Cat. Skt. MSS N.-W. P. II, Nr. 27: Dhāturatnamālā by Aśvinikumāra. 217 Verses three and four give a table of contents, but do not refer to the purification of the dhātus and upadhātus. 218 The term kharpara (81) is, as in the Dhātukriyā, applied to zinc. 219 Not mentioned in the table of contents. Of uncertain identity. 220 The type, usually called piṇāka, is absent. 221 A weight. 222 S. Ārya (1984): 91. Bhagwan Dash (1986): 14–15. J. Filliozat in L. Renou et J. Filliozat (1953): 169. Jaggi V, 136. R.C. Majumdar (1971): 265. P. Rāy (1956): 162 (not earlier than the fourteenth century). S.K. Śarmā (1992): 18. Satyaprakāś (1960): 616. 223 AVI 462. 224 ABI 322. Vṛddhatrayī 474. 225 STMI 52: composed in A.D. 1828/29. Momin Ali (1990: 153): completed in A.D. 1828. 226 Cat. Bikaner Nr. 1393. 227 NCC: no anonymous medical or alchemical text of this title recorded. Check-list Nr. 240: Dhāturatnāvalī; Nr. 239: Dhāturatnamālāvyākhyā, a commentary to the Dhāturatnāvalī. 228 NCC: not recorded. R. Nambiyar (1950): 1298–99 (Serial Nr. 96, Accession Nr. 9675). 229 NCC IX, 295: anonymous. B. Jawalia (1983): 332–333 (Serial Nr. 2970, Accession Nr. 1470). 230 NCC VI, 351; IX, 295. 231 NCC IX, 295. 232 NCC IX, 295. 233 NCC: not recorded. U. Mishra (1967): 836–837 (Serial Nr. 4516, Accession Nr. 1198/8). 234 NCC IX, 295. 235 NCC IX, 286. 236 STMI 439. 237 NCC: not recorded. Editions: *a edited under the title Dhātūtpatti by V.S. Agrawala, with a Hindī translation by Bhanvarlāl Nāhaṭā and a Sanskrit chāyā by Narottam Dās Svāmī, Journal of the Uttar Pradesh Historical Society 24/25 (1951/52), 312–335. b Agarcand Nāhaṭā and Bhanvarlāl Nāhaṭā's Ṭhakkura-Pherū-viracita Ratnaparīkṣādi-sapta-granthasaṃgraha, Rājasthāna Purātana Granthamālā 60, Jodhpur 1961, 39–44. *c Ṭhakkura Pherū viracitā Dravyaparīkṣā aur Dhātūtpatti, edited, with a Hindī translation, by Bhanvarlāl Nāhaṭā, Vaiśālī 1976. References are to b. See on the author: Rayanaparikkhā. 238 A conch shell (Turbinella pyrum) turning to the right. It should be noticed that the exceedingly rare left-handed specimens of this shell, venerated as a symbol of Viṣṇu, are called right-handed by the Indians, who regard the apex as the bottom of the shell, while biologists hold a shell in the conventional position, with the apex at the top and the aperture at the bottom (see S.J. Gould, 1997: 202–203). 239 Dhātūtpatti 42. See S.R. Sarma's annotations to his edition and translation of Ṭhakkura Pherū's Rayanaparikkhā, 71. See on amber: K. Karttunen (1997): 247. 240 See S.R. Sarma's edition of Ṭhakkura Pherū's Rayanaparikkhā, Introduction 10. 241 NCC IX, 294. See also: Rasendrapatala.