Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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INTRODUCTION
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(st. 141 ) while the YS' gives him one month's life on the same ground (5; 158-162). Regarding one's life or death, on the ground of Upaśruti, the RS (sts. 180–192) and the YS (5; 188196) are practically unanimous. There is a difference, between the RS (sts. 194–198) and the YS (5; 129-134), regarding s the conception of the Kālajñānacakra. The former enjoins to imagine bright half on the left hand and the dark half on the right hand while the reverse is found in the YS'. Both differ, though slightly, with respect to the basic idea of the Saņicakka. The RS puts four asterisms on the bosom ( st. 225) while the YS'10 does five (5; 198). The RS places two on the head and two on the private parts (st. 225) but the YS does three on the head and one on the private parts ( 5; 198). As far as this Cakka is concerned, the RS recognizes twenty-seven asterisms while the YS' does twenty-eight. There is substantial uniformity betweenis the RS (sts. 241, 242) and the YS" (5; 201–207) regarding the Panhalagna.
The RS and the YR The YR is a standard popular work on medicine. It is quite modern and of a compilatory character. The Bharşajyaratnāvali and the Bhāvaprakāśa also, like the YR, are equally 20 authoritative and respected by the physicians. There is a reference to omens and portents, collectively called the Kālajñāna, on page 7, foretelling the advent of death.
The RS embodies a principle that one, who sees four discs of the sun or the moon in the corners between quarters, 25 lives for four ghatikās and he lives for four days at the most if he finds them in the four quarters (st. 51). All the works on omens and portents are conspicuous by the absence of this reference of the RS. The RS specifically alludes to the fact that if one sees a hole northward, eastward, southward and westward in the 30 disc of the sun or the moon reflected in water, he continues in this world for a month, six months, three months and two months respectively (st. 52). The YR agrees completely with the RS so far (7; 1). The RS gives two limits, of ten days or fifteen days, if one finds a hole in the middle of the reflected disc (loc. cit.). 35 The YR, like the KJ, states that there is no go for him but to remain on this earth only for ten days at the most (loc. cit.).
1 See App. XIV, p. 108.