[INDOLOGY] the medical term jagrī?

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Thank you very much, Dan, Heiner, and Matthew, for your replies. Dan, what
the Dharmamitra.org site came up with is truly amazing. I had no idea that
such a research tool existed. It greatly helped to explain why the various
Tibetan translations of jagrī and plīhan are so mutually contradictory.

There is no doubt that jagrī is the correct word. We have very old
palm-leaf manuscripts from near the time the *Kālacakra-tantra* and its
*Vimalaprabhā* commentary were written, circa 1025-1040 CE, and they all
agree on this spelling. This word must have been taken from some medical
text then available.

The first Tibetan translation made, by Gyijo, as revised shortly thereafter
by rMa lotsawa, translated jagrī as mcher pa, "spleen." The Rwa translation
translated jagrī as skran, "tumor." The 'Bro translation as revised by
Shong ston translated jagrī as dmu chu, "edema," and the Jonang revision of
the Shong ston revision left this unchanged. The Sarnath Sanskrit edition
of the *Vimalaprabhā* put yakṛt in parentheses after jagrī, thus thinking
it means "liver."

The first Tibetan translation made, by Gyijo, as revised shortly thereafter
by rMa lotsawa, translated plīhan, "spleen," as mchin pa, "liver." The Rwa
translation translated plīhan as mchin nad, "liver disease." The 'Bro
translation as revised by Shong ston translated plīhan as skran, "tumor,"
and the Jonang revision of the Shong ston revision left this unchanged.
None of the four available Tibetan translations took plīhan as "spleen."

The *Vimalaprabhā* commentary has: jagrī-plīhārṣa-rogān api jalodarādīni,
which seems to gloss jagrī as jalodara, "edema" (literally, "water belly").
There is no other occurrence of the word jagrī in the *Kālacakra-tantra* or
*Vimalaprabhā*.

It would be very helpful to find what medical text the term jagrī was taken
from.

With thanks and best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.
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