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Hindu Medicine c10: Notes to Chapter I

Hindu Medicine c10

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Notes to Chapter I

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increased strength to the unborn: when the magic dish is offered to the pregnant mother, that she may bring forth a male child (puṃsavana-saṃskāra); and when a potion of liquor (surā) medicated with herbs is prepared (in the sautrāmaṇī-ritual).

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⁴ Walter Addison Jayne, *The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilisations*, New Haven, 1925.

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⁵ Cf. H. Kern, "Manual of Indian Buddhism," *Encyclopaedia of Indo-Aryan Research*, Strassburg, 1896, pp. 46-47 with reference to Yogasūtra II, 13 commentary.

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⁶ Brahma-vaivarta-purāṇa, Kṛṣṇa-janma-khaṇḍa, ch. 51. For the general background, cf. Arturo Castiglioni, "The Serpent in Medicine," *Ciba Symposia*, III, 12, March 1942.

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⁷ *The Bhela Saṃhita*, Sanskrit Text, publ. by the University of Calcutta, 1921.

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⁸ "The Bower Manuscript, Facsimile leaves, Nāgarī Transcript, Romanised Transliteration and English Translation with Notes," ed. by A. F. R. Hoernle, part 1, 2. *Archaeological Survey of India*, New Imperial Series, Vol. 22, Calcutta, 1893-1912.

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⁹ Aśvavaidyaka by Jayadatta, and Aśvacikitsita by Nakula, ed. by Umeśacandra, *Bibliotheca Indica*, Calcutta, 1887; cf. M. Winternitz, *Geschichte der Indischen Literatur*, Vol. III, pp. 552-553. Extracts in H. Zimmer, *Spiel um den Elefanten*, München, 1929.

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¹⁰ "Hastyāyurveda" ed. Mahādeva Cimanājī Apte, *Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series*, Vol. 26, 1894. Extracts from the chapters on humors, diet, diseases, types of elephants etc. printed in *Spiel um den Elefanten*. On elephant lore, cf. Franklin Edgerton, *The Elephant-Lore of the Hindus, The Elephant-Sport (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha*, transl. from the original Sanskrit with introduction, notes and glossary, New Haven, 1931.

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¹¹ Cf. Book II, Pathology, and the parallel chapters in Book IV, Therapy. The same strict separation of diagnosis and therapy occurs again in Book VI, 1-7 and 8-17, in the section on eye-diseases; and in VI, 27, the diagnosis of children's diseases, followed by the corresponding treatments, 28-36.

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12 “ nidāne Mādhavah śreṣṭhaḥ/sūtrasthāne tu Vāgbhaṭaḥ/śarīre Suśrutaḥ proktaś/Carakas tu cikitsake//”

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13 Ānandarāyamakhī, of the Bharadvāja gotra, was a son of Nṛsiṃharāyamakhī or Nṛsiṃharāyadhvarī and a nephew of Tryambakarāyayajvadīkṣita or Tryambakarāyamakhī. “ Jīvānandam ” and “ Vidyāpariṇayanam ” published in the Kāvyamālā editions (Nr. 27 and 39). Translations of “ Jīvānandam ”: *Il Jivananda (la Felicità dell'Anima) di Anandarayamakhin*, by Vallauri, editor G. Caraba, Lanciano; and *Das Glück des Lebens, medizinisches Drama von Ānandarāyamakhī*, übersetzt von Adolf Weckerling, Greifswald, 1937.

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14 The relation between husband and wife is likewise the model for the bond between the Brahmin, acting as a house-priest and spiritual adviser, and the king or chief, who submits himself to the spiritual guidance and magic protection of the priest. It constitutes the foundation of the cooperation between spiritual authority and temporal power in Indo-Aryan civilization. Cf. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, *Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government*, New Haven, 1942.

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15 Su. I, 7. H. H. Sir Bhagavant Sinh Jee, *A Short History of Aryan Medical Science*, New York, 1896, contains on plates VII-X illustrations of a hundred and twenty-five implements of Indian surgery. Cf. Girindranath Mukhopadhyāya Bhisagācārya, *The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus*, 2 vols., Calcutta University, 1909.

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16 Cf. Charles Greene Cumston, *An Introduction to the History of Medicine*, New York, 1926; ch. III, Hindu Medicine.

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17 Cf. D. V. S. Reddy, “Medical Relief in Medieval South India, Centres of Medical Aid and Types of Medical Institutions,” in *Bulletin of the History of Medicine*, 1941, 9, pp. 385-400.

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18 King Arjuna Kārtavīrya Haihaya meets death at the hand of Rāma-with-the-axe (Paraśurāma), the warlike Brahmin hero of the epic cycle, who exterminated the kings and chieftains of the warrior-caste to avenge his father. The dreams of the king, portending his imminent death, are recounted in Brahma-vaivarta-purāṇa, Gaṇeśa-khaṇḍa, ch. 34.

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A similar series of dream-symbols occurs in another chapter of the same Purāṇa (Kṛṣṇa-janma-khaṇḍa 63). It is told by Kaṃsa, the opponent and victim of the hero-savior, Kṛṣṇa. This blood-thirsty tyrant, a demon incarnate among men, foresees his doom at the hand of the avatāra of Viṣṇu.

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The meaning of dream-symbols is discussed in detail by Jaggad-deva in *Svapnacintāmaṇi*, ed. and transl. by Julius von Negelein: *Der Traumschlüssel des Jagaddeva, ein Beitrag zur indischen Mantik*, Gießen, 1912.

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¹ Cf. Helmuth von Glasenapp, "Tantrismus und Śaktismus," *Ostasiatische Zeitschrift*, Neue Folge, Heft 3/4, p. 120. *Works on Tantra and Tantrik Texts*, ed. by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe), London, Calcutta, Madras, 1913-29.

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² Aitareya Upaniṣad, I; Aitareya Āraṇyaka, II, 4. Cf. *The Thirteen Principal Upanishads*, translated from the Sanskrit . . . by Robert Ernest Hume, New York, 1934, p. 294.

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³ Cf. Whitney-Lanman's translation, p. 647.

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⁴ For specimens of these macro-microcosmic equations, cf. R. E. Hume's translation of the Upaniṣads, General Index, under "Correlations or Correspondences of things cosmic and personal"; for the philosophic background: Hermann Oldenberg, *Vorwissenschaftliche Wissenschaft, die Weltanschauung der Brāhmaṇa-Texte*, Göttingen, 1919.

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⁵ Cf. Whitney-Lanman's translation, p. 632.

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⁶ The five principal forms of the Fire-god (Agni) to which the text refers are: 1. the celestial fire of the sun; 2. the fire inhabiting the cosmic water and flashing forth from the womb of the clouds

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