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1996 IUB Colombia Cl-2 Reproduction
1996 IUB Colombia Cl-2 Reproduction is a reproduction accession of Cannabis indica grown from seed recorded as coming from Colombia. It is known from one herbarium sheet that Karl W. Hillig made in 1996 from a plant grown in a greenhouse of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana. The label gives Hillig's parallel code Cl-2 and names the seed source as a drug seizure by the police of Bloomington, Indiana. The herbarium of Indiana University holds the sheet as catalogue IND-0149617, with the university number 148879.
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Cikitsasarasangraha
The Cikitsāsārasaṅgrahaḥ (Sanskrit चिकित्सासारसंग्रहः, "Compendium of the Essence of Treatment"), also known as the Vaṅgasena Saṃhitā, is a Sanskrit Ayurvedic medical compendium composed in Bengal in the 12th century CE by Vaṅgasena, son of Gadādhara, of Kantikapura. It is counted among the eight complete sangraha (epitome) texts of medieval Indian medicine, alongside the Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha of Vāgbhaṭa, the Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā and the Bhāvaprakāśa.
The work is one of the earliest Indian medical compendia to record cannabis, under the Sanskrit name vijayā (विजया), as a named ingredient in standardised polyherbal formulations. The principal cannabis preparation, Vijayā Cūrṇa, is a twenty-eight ingredient compound described in the chapter on haemorrhoids; additional vijayā preparations appear in the chapters on fevers, sprue and indigestion.
The standard printed Sanskrit edition is the 1891 Calcutta recension prepared by the Bengali pandit Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭāchārya, which runs to 1052 pages and is the source documented on this page. It is in the public domain and freely available through the Internet Archive.
Vaṅgasena is identified in the colophon as the son of Gadādhara and a native of Kantikapura, generally located in the Bengal region. His dates are conventionally placed in the 12th century CE on the basis of internal references: he cites Cakrapāṇidatta (11th c.) and is in turn cited by Śārṅgadhara (early 13th c.) and Bhāvamiśra (16th c.). The work is also recorded under the alternative titles Vaṅgasena Saṅgraha, Vaṅgadatta and Sarvasiddhāntasāra.
The text is preserved in numerous manuscript copies across Indian collections. …
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