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1163 The title Ṭhakkura of Pherū and his father indicates that both were government employees. Pherū may have been the assay-master of the mint at Delhi during the reign of Qutb-ud-Dīn Mubārak Shāh (see S.R. Sarma's introduction to ed. b, 3–4). See on Mubārak Shāh: S. Roy (1980): 40–44. 1164 This is *Alā-ud-Dīn Khaljī (A.D. 1296–1316). See on him: S. Roy (1980): 18–40. 1165 See the introductory and concluding verses. 1166 All these works form part of edition a. See on part of these works: CESS A 3, 78; A 4, 102; A 5, 124; D. Pingree (1981). See for a summary of their contents: B.M. Chintamani (1971: 170), who also ascribes a Bhūgarbhaprakāśa to the author. 1167 This date is indicated at the end of the work. 1168 CC: not recorded. Mentioned in the Kavindrācāryasūcipatram (Nr. 972) as a work on rasayana. 1169 CC I, 531–532; II, 124–125 and 222; III, 113. Sometimes ascribed to Nāgārjuna: AVI 472; S.K. Śarmā (1992): 12. 1170 See on the Rudrayāmala: S.C. Banerji (1988): 397–398; T. Goudriaan and S. Gupta (1981): 47 and 129; Tāntrika Sāhitya 561–563. S. Ārya (1984: 41) mentions that a Tantra is of a sāttvika, a Yāmala of a rājasa, and a Ḍāmara of a tāmasa character. 1171 See on particular aspects of the contents of the Rudrayāmala: S.C. Banerji (1992): 189, 196, 199, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 256. 1172 See the desription of this text. A Dhātukalpa is also said to form part of the Rudrayāmala. 1173 See the description of this text. 1174 See the description of this text. 1175 CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 30: incomplete; appears to be old. 1176 NCC VII, 371 (Jyotiṣmatīkalpa). Check-list Nrs. 297 (Gandhaka- and Pāradakalpa), 356 and 713 (Jyotiṣmatīkalpa). CBORI XVI, I, Nrs. 40 (Aśvagandhāmusalivijayākalpa) and 57 (Gandhaka- and Pāradakalpa: from chapter twenty-eight of the Rudrayāmala). The Gandhakakalpa and Pāradakalpa from the Rudrayāmala were *edited by Vaidya Jādavjī Tricumjī Acharya, Āyurvedīyagranthamālā 3, 2 vols., Bombay 1911, 1915. Bhagvat Sinh Jee (1927): 210 (Haritālakalpa). See also: Aṣṭaparīkṣā and Kalpasaṃgraha. An aśvagandhā-, gandhaka-, haritāla- (= tālaka-), jyotiṣmatī-, and musalīkalpa form part of the Rasārṇavakalpa of the Rudrayāmala. See: Rasārṇavakalpa. 1177 CC I, 701. The version of the Rasārṇavāmalatantra edited by Ram Kumar Rai (Krishnadas Sanskrit Series 86, Varanasi 1986) does not contain the parts mentioned. 1178 Compare the Rasārṇavakalpa from the Rudrayāmala and the Kākacaṇḍīśvarakalpatantra. 1179 ABI 409. AVI 461. D. Dwarkanath (1991) 43. P. Rāy (1956): 122–123. G.P. Srivastava (1954): 113. V. Śukla I, 210. D.C. Sircar (1973: 17) regards the Rudrayāmala as earlier than A.D. 1052. S.K. Śarmā (1992: 19) assigns the Rudrayāmalatantra, attributed by him to Bhairavānanda, to the sixteenth century. 1180 AVI 461. 1181 See: Rasaratnākara, anonymous. 1182 CC and NCC: not recorded. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 223: one of the colophons calls it Rasasāra, but the work is quite different from Govinda's Rasasāra; the treatise deals with medicines, mainly with rasas. 1183 CC: not recorded. S. Ārya (1984): 128. 1184 See Toḍara IX.