Kṣemendra had another crack at physicians in his *Narmamālā* (ii 68-81). Mentioned by Basham 1976: 30-31
- Basham, A. L. 1976. “The Practice of Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India.” In Asian Medical Systems, 18–43. Best, Dominik On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 11:14, Eric Moses Gurevitch <[email protected]> wrote: > This is neither here nor there, but Kṣemendra makes a playful pun on this > in his *Deśopadeśa, *which maybe can be translated like this: > > A fraudulent physician is a swindler without a heart (*hṛdaya*), that is, > he doesn’t possess > knowledge of Vāgbhaṭa’s *Heart of Medicine*. He is not collected ( > *saṃgraha*), that is, he > doesn’t possess knowledge of Vāgbhaṭa’s *Medical Collection* (*saṃgraha*). > Being full of > faults (*doṣin*), he doesn’t diagnose the humors (*doṣa*). He is a > vagrant (*caraka*), but he > doesn’t understand the *Compendium of Caraka*. > > *hṛdayavīno dhūrtaḥ saṃgraharahitaḥ sa vaṃcako vaidyaḥ |* > *vakti na doṣān doṣī carakaś carakaṃ na jānāti ||* 8.34 > > > > Take care, > Eric > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 9:28 AM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> There's a comprehensive discussion of uses of the word "caraka" in >> Meulenbeld's HIML, IA, 105 ff. I have nothing new to add to that. GJM >> said, "The references to Caraka and Carakas discussed so far show that >> these names are very old and go back to Vedic times." (109 >> <https://archive.org/details/Meulenbeld-HIML/HIML%201A%20/page/109/mode/1up> >> ). >> >> Best, >> Dominik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > > -- > > Eric Gurevitch > > South Asian Languages and Civilizations and > > Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science > > University of Chicago > > [email protected] >
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