Works Attributed To Cakrapāṇidatta

Sri.G.Haldar reckon Cakrapāṇidatta as an ambidextrous scholar¹⁰⁵. The literary activity of Cakrapāṇidatta covered the fields of sāhitya, tarkaśāstra, vyākaraṇa, and cikitsāśāstra. He is credited with the authorship of tīkās on Māgha, Kādambarī and Daśakumāracaritaṃ’s uttarapīṭhikā¹⁰⁶. Vyākaraṇa tattva candrikā is said be written by Cakrapāṇidatta¹⁰⁷. Nyāyasūtratātparyaṭīkā is a work attributed to Cakradatta in the field of logic¹⁰⁸. Vaidyakośa, Śabdacandrika, Muktāvalī, Sarvasāra saṃgraha, Cakradatta saṃgraha or Cakradatta or Cikitsāsāra saṃgraha,Vyāgradaridraśubhaṅkaraṃ, Dravyaguṇasaṃgrahaḥ, Gūḍa vākyabodhakaṃ, Cikitsasthānaṭippaṇaṃ, Āyurveda dīpikaṭīka, and Bhānumatīṭikā are the works that reflect the eclectic approach of Cakrapāṇidatta in the field of medical literature.¹⁰⁹ Dr. G. J. Meulenbeld does not consider the following works to the authorship of Cakrapāṇidatta: Sāhitya ṭīkas, Cikitsāsthānaṭippaṇa, Nyāyasūtratātparyaṭīkā, Śabdacandrika and Vaidyakośa.¹¹⁰Dr.P.V.Sharma considers Cakradatta, Vyāgradaridra śubhaṅkaraṃ, Āyurvedadīpikāṭīka, Bhānumatī ṭikā and Dravyaguṇa saṃgrahaḥ as the genuine works of Cakrapāṇidatta as the first four are referred by Niścalakara and the last one is commented by Śivadāsasena.¹¹¹ Dr.P.V.Sharma rejects the attribution of authorship of śabdacandrika to Cakrapāṇidatta, based on internal and external evidences¹¹². P.V.Sharma fixes the date of the author of sabdacandrika much later and regards him as different from Cakrapāṇidatta, the celebrated ṭīkākara of Carakasaṃhitā and Suśrutasaṃhita.¹¹³

Cakradatta

Cakradattasaṃgraha or Cikitsāsaṃgraha is designed to serve the purpose of clinician’s hand book. The therapeutic treatise follows Vṛndamādhava in style and dictation with substantial improvement in the content mainly by the incorporation of rasauṣadhas.¹¹⁴ The treatise contains seventy-one chapters arranged almost in the sequence followed by Mādhavanidānakāra. Kaviraj.N.N.Sengupta reckon gūḍha vākya bhodaka as another epithet of this work¹¹⁵.

Dr.P.V.Sharma interprets term gūḍhavākyabodhakavākyavant in the introductory verse of Cakradatta as a proof of an earlier treatise called Gūḍhavākyabhodaka, whose parts have been absorbed in to the new work i.e., Cakradatta. In support of this hypothesis Dr.P.V.Sharma cites the propitiations rendered by Herambasasena in his work Gūḍhabodhaka,( supposed to be a work on latro-chemistry) addressed to Cakrapāṇi, Maheśvara and Nityanātha. Two manuscripts of this work are preserved.¹¹⁶

Dravyaguṇasaṃgraha

The work exclusively deals with the properties of the medicinal and food articles. The text contains 592 verses, which falls in thirteen sections. Prof. Meulenbeld is of the opinion thinks this work is basically inspired by the treatises of Caraka and Suśruta.¹¹⁷Sivadāsasena has written a commentary on this work but unlike his other works there is no title for this work.¹¹⁸

Vyagradaridraśubhaṃkara

The text is quoted several times by Niścalakara in his ratnaprabhaṭīkā. He uses the śubha¹¹⁹, śuṃbhaṃkara¹²⁰, and vyagradaridra śubhaṃkara to refer this work.¹²¹ The references in ratnaprabhāṭīkā clearly suggests that this text was written before the codification of Cikitsasaṃgraha¹²².