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! 287 PÄTHAVIMARŠA 13. The description is incomplete. प्रथमे च तृतीये च पञ्चमे तिथिसंज?्ञया । (i) cf. द्वितीये च तृतीये(चतुर्थे) च मात्रा भास्करसंज?्ञया ॥ ईंदुक् पञ्चदशधानो दोहकेन समन्वितः। वस्तुनाम प्रबन्धोऽयं मुनिभिः परिकोर्तितः ॥ इंदुग्विधः प्रवन्धोऽसी नाटकैरपि गीयते । भरतोक्तप्रकारेण नानारससमुद्भवः॥ Mānaso IV.16.294 -298. मात्राः पञ्चदशाधेऽङ्ग्र तृतीये पञ्चमे तथा। (ii) तुर्यास्तुर्ये द्वितीये च स्वरपाटान्तमादिमम् ॥ अपरं स्वरतेनान्तमधं तदनु दोधकः। यस्य स्यात् तेनकन्यासस्तद्वस्तु कवयो विदु ॥ SR 1V.275,276. यस्यार्थमादिमं प्रान्तं स्वरपाटं तथा परम् ॥ (iii) स्वरतेनान्तमधी स्याद् दोहकस्तु ततः परः। तेनन्यासं च तद्वस्तु तल्लक्ष्म प्रागुदाहतम् ॥ S Rāj I.4.3.39. पदैः स्वरैः क्रीञ्चपदः प्रतितालेन गीयते । 14. cf. स्वरन्यासः स तत्राम्ना छन्दसा मुक्तकोऽथवा ॥ SR IV.221. पदद्वयतेन (पदद्वयं प्रयत्नेन) समानगणसम्मितम् । 15. cf. संस्कृतं च तथा दे[श्यं] कार्यं हंसपदे बुधैः ॥ अप(य)मेकः संस्कृतः पादस्तदन्यो देशभाषया। गीयते प्राससंयुक्तः प्रोक्तो हंसपदाभिधः ॥ Mānaso IV.16.321, 323. तालद्वयसमायुक्तः पदपाटोपशोभितः। 16. cf. पदैः प्रश्नोत्तरैर्युक्तः स प्रोक्तः शुकसारिकः ॥ गद्ये वा पद्यबन्धे वा तालद्वयनियोज?िता। प्रश्नोत्तरपदैः पार्देगेयं(गेया) स्याच्छुकसारिका ॥ कर्णाटलाटभाषाभ्या प्रश्लोत्तरपदैर्युता । भीयते या तु गीतज्ञैः सा भवेच्छुकसारिका । इंदृक्प्रश्रोत्तरैर्युक्ता वाञ्छितार्थेऽभियोज?िता । रसेन येन केनापि गातव्या शुकसारिका ॥ Mānaso IV.16.326-29.

VIMARŚA ¹⁷⁵ 61. Like Suśruta, Bh Prak VII, 27 also mentions tvak (skin) as the first dhātu, instead of rasa (chyle) of our text. Monier Williams also enumerates seven dhātus as chyle ( rasa ), blood, flush, fat, bone, marrow, semen; replacing tuak with rasa. ⁶². The seven minerals are not clear. 63. The number of cakras (psychophysical centres in the human body visualised as circles, cakras or lotuses, padmas) is generally accepted as six, eight or ten (as in SRI, 2. 120-145 ab). ByD has talked of seven sthanas elsewhere ( in the confused reading in the section on Varṇālankāra towards the end of Anu. 84, see textual note no. 20 in that section ); viz. ādhāra, svādhişṭhāna, anāhata, maņipūra, višuddhi, ājñā and brahmarandhra. Out of these, the last one viz. brahma-randhra (cerebral aperture) is not the name of a cakra, rather it is the location of the sahasrāra cakra. These seven names do form part of the ten cakras spoken of in SR in the following locations - Name of Cakra Location 1. Ādhāra In-between the anus and the genitals 2. Svādhişthāna Root of the genitals ³. Manipūra Around the navel ⁴. Anāhata Heart ⁵. Visuddhi Throat 6. Ājāā In-between the two eye-brows ⁷. Sahasrāra Cerebral aperture It is notable that SR associates the production of musical notes with the anāhata, višuddhi and lalanā-( situated in the back of the neck ) cakras alone and not with all the seven listed above. The treatment of cakras in BrD could not be assessed from this stray reference. It is only the number seven that corresponds with the connection of seven cakras with the svaras that the author is trying to establish here. In note 59 above, we have said that the connection of dhaivata with the forehead is not clear. If the seven svaras are connected with the seven sthanas listed above, one by one, then dhaivata being the sixth one could be connected with the viśuddhi cakra located in-between the eye brows. But the location of seven svaras in the seven cakras is not corroborated by any other known text. 64. S R I, 3.55 cd, 56 ab speaks of the origin of svaras in the seven islands as follows- Name of Svara Name of Duipa Sadja Jambū Šāka Rsabha Gändhära Kuśa Madhyama Krauñca Pañcama Sālmalī Dhaivata Sveta Nisāda Puşkara