A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.898

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Madras Government Oriental Series No. LXXVIII, Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras 1951; this edition is based on *MS R No. 4494 of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras. References are to ed. b. the title of the treatise is mentioned at 1.2. 1068 Edition a has 209 verses. 1069 See on the number of mahāratnas in various works: V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 7–8. 1070 See on the uparatnas: V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 8–10. 1071 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 14–18. 1072 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 27–29. 1073 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 18–21. 1074 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 22–23. 1075 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 21–22. 1076 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 25–26. 1077 Unidentified. 1078 This term usually denotes an emerald. 1079 Usually one of the names of the emerald. 1080 Probably the same as gāruḍodgāra. 1081 Unidentified; described as deriving from the bamboo (vamśa) and able to give a red colour to water. 1082 Unidentified; described as a red smooth stone of a red colour with white lines. 1083 See on the cat’s eye and topaz: V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 24–25. 1084 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to ed. a, 26–27. 1085 See on the relationships between (semi-)precious stones and the grahas: D. Pingree (1978): II, 253–259, 375; S.R.N. Murthy (1993); D.C. Sircar (1972); M. Uniyāl (1998). 1086 Varāhamihira according to A.M. Shastri (1969: 324), who mentions that Caṇḍeśvara abundantly draws upon the chapters on ratnaparīkṣā of the Bṛhatsamhitā (see V.W. Karambelkar’s Intr. to edition a). 1087 Ṭodara IX: 4.645. 1088 See V.W. Karambelkar’s Preface to ed. a. V.W. Karambelkar refers to K.-P. Jayaswal’s Introduction to his edition of the Rājanītiratnākara; Jayaswal informs his readers that Devāditya, Caṇḍeśvara’s grandfather, Vīreśvara, his father, and Caṇḍeśvara himself held high posts at the court of the Karṇāṭa king of Mithilā, identified as Harisimhadeva, who came to the throne about A.D. 1304 (see: The Rājanīti-ratnākara by Caṇḍeśvara, edited by Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, Appendix to JBORS 22, 4, 1936). Compare the Prastāvanā to the edition by Gairolā and T. Jhā, where the same genealogy is mentioned; Devāditya is described as a well-known scholar, Vīreśvara as the pradhānāmātya of king Harisimha of Mithilā, who was of Karṇāṭavaṃśa and reigned until A.D. 1324, and Caṇḍeśvara as a mantrin of this king; Caṇḍeśvara wrote his Rājanītiratnākara on the request of king Bhaveśa of Mithilā, of Kāmeśvaravaṃśa, who ruled in A.D. 1370. Compare on Caṇḍeśvara and his works: R. Adriaensen, H.T. Bakker, H. Isaacson (1998): 11–13. 1089 See Gairolā and T. Jhā’s Prastāvanā, 7. 1090 CC I, 177 and 580; II, 225; III, 122. 1091 CC I, 115 and 177. 1092 CC: not recorded. 1093 CC: not recorded. 1094 Gairolā and T. Jhā’s Prastāvanā to their edition of the Rājanītiratnākara. V.W. Karambelkar’s Preface to ed. a. A.M. Shastri (1969): 324.