A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.899

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1095 CC I, 491: quoted in Ṭoḍara's Āyurvedasaukhya. V. Śukla I, 196. 1096 CC II, 219: medical work; composed in A.D. 1442. Check-list Nr. 689. STMI 181. P.M. Jinavijaya (1976): 310–311 (Serial Nr. 2765, Accession Nr. 22065: composed in A.D. 1785/86). R. Nambiyar (1950): 1304–05 (Serial Nr. 166, Accession Nr. 11542). 1097 CC I, 491: on precious stones. 1098 CC I, 331 and 491: on precious stones. NCC XI, 254: witty stanzas. STMI 572. 1099 CC I, 490: quoted by Bharatasena on Bhaṭṭikāvya; texts on ratnaparīkṣā form part of the Garuḍapurāṇa and Skandapurāṇa; II, 114: from the Indrajālatantra; III, 105: ascribed to Agastya. STMI 571: ascribed to Agastya; 572: anonymous. B. Jawalia (1983): 310–311 (Serial Nrs. 2773, 2774, 2776, 2777, Accession Nrs. 906, 908, 1725(1), 1725(2): anonymous texts; Serial Nr. 2774 dates from A.D. 1676/77, Nr. 2777 from A.D. 1668/69). T. Joshi and D. Sharma (1979): 110–111 (Serial Nr. 981, Accession Nr. 28126: anonymous). V. Śukla I, 196. Compare Agastyasaṃhitā. 1100 CC: not recorded. STMI 571. Editions: a edited and translated into French by L. Finot (1896): 1–58 (Buddhabhaṭṭa's Ratnaparīkṣā). b Ratna Dīpikā and Ratna Śāstram, edited with introduction by P.S. Rama Sastri, Madras Government Oriental Series No. LXXVIII, Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras 1951; this edition is based on *MS R No. 2942 of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras. References are to ed. b, which calls the work in its colophon Buddhabhaṭṭayaratnaśāstra. 1101 See on the work: A.K. Biswas (1994). 1102 A variety of vaiḍūrya is described as displaying chaṭoyanya (vahniṣphulinganivaha); this phenomenon is absent from the true vaiḍūrya, which means that Buddhabhaṭṭa is in error here (see A.K. Biswas, 1994: 145). 1103 This chapter also dealt with rudhirākṣa and sphaṭika, as indicated by its colophon and the colophon at the end of the treatise; the section on these subjects is missing, except for two verses on sphaṭika at the end; stanzas on the twenty-five tattvas of the Sāṃkhya system and some related issues are interpolated. Chapters 78 and 79 of the Garuḍapurāṇa reproduce the verses on rudhirākṣya and sphaṭika, absent from the MS on which the edition is based. 1104 See, for instance, 1.45–46; 2.58–60; 3.15–17; 4.20–22 (on the stones called bhallātaka and putrikā); 5.13–14. The putrikā is a fake emerald (see A.K. and S. Biswas, 1996: 88). 1105 See C.H. Tawney's translation, 104. 1106 See K.H. Handiqui (1949): 460–461. 1107 J. Filliozat in L. Renou et J. Filliozat (1953): 167. S.R. Sarma's edition of Ṭhakkura Pherū's Rayaṇaparikkhā, Introduction 14; S.R. Sarma asserts that the references to Buddhism have been removed from the version of Buddhabhaṭṭa's treatise incorporated in the Garuḍapurāṇa. 1108 See S.R. Sarma's Introduction (14) to his edition of Ṭhakkura Pherū's Rayaṇaparikkhā. See also: A.K. Biswas (1994): 141; A.K. and S. Biswas (1996): 70; A.M. Shastri (1969): 324. 1109 Moṭicandra's Ṭhakkura Pherūkr̥ta Ratnaparīkṣākā paricaya (5), in Ṭhakkura-Pherū-viracita Ratnaparīkṣā-sapta-granthasaṃgraha, ed. by Jinavijaya Muni, Jodhpur 1961. 1110 Vr̥ddhatrayī 53. 1111 This opinion of L. Finot (1896: VI–IX) is referred to by J. Filliozat (L. Renou et J. Filliozat, 1953: 167) and A.M. Shastri (1969: 324).