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Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.23

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1.23.1

Some are proclaimed as having claws, and others as having horns, others as having claws [for tearing]; / some are beasts of prey, birds, others are fish, and others are reptiles,

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aquatic, water-dependent, dwellers of village or wilderness, / creatures of marshland, dry land, and another is the intermediate [land].

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Deer, ruru deer, spotted deer, and the rhinoceros, wild gavaya oxen, and buffaloes, / boars and the like, which are of various colours, and those residing in villages,

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all the wild elephants and the like, the horned ones of villages and the like, / and the boars, chikkara deer, and the like, or those which are armed with tusks—

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the hare, pangolin, monitor lizard, cat, and the like, whose weapons are their claws; / and snakes, fish, and the like, these are to be known as reptiles.

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The fish, maṅkura fish, and the like, tortoises, durjaras, and the like, / swans, sārasa cranes, cakravāka geese, and the like, kapiñjala partridges, kumūdakās—

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among these, those are to be known as marsh creatures; they produce phlegm and aggravate wind.

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The hare, quail, vātāṭa bird, monitor lizard, gazelle, kūṭaka, / the chikkara deer and the like, and others, grey partridges and the like, kūrcakas,

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the lark, falcons, mice, and excellent elephants— / these are dry-land animals, which live without [abundance of] water.

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Boars, deer, porcupines, and the like, that resort to water reservoirs, / crocodiles and the like, the rhinoceros, and wild oxen, and likewise others,

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and buffaloes and the like: these are regarded as intermediate [creatures]. / The osprey, heron, alligator, buzzard, sparrow, cuckoo, black bee, sārasa crane,

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the āḍi, gallinule, swan, water-crow, kapiṅka, lapwing, and the like, / these are aquatic birds, and the wagtail and the bhāsaka.

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These are water-born creatures; the land-born dwell on land.

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Elephants, horses, likewise camels, buffaloes, cattle, and goats, / donkeys, pigs, sheep, dogs, cats, and mice—

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these are to be known as domestic animals, dwelling in villages.

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The cock, sparrow, dove, and domestic pigeon,

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birds that roam in villages: I shall declare their virtues and faults.

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Among the horned animals, the blackbuck is best: strengthening, appetising, stimulating to digestion, / pacifying the three humours, light in digestion, sweet, and beneficial for fever-patients.

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In wounds, wasting, haemorrhoids, in one afflicted by anaemia and anorexia, / and for those troubled by cough and asthma, blackbuck meat brings comfort.

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The spotted deer is regarded as pacifying wind, nourishing, and conferring strength; / it is also said to produce phlegm, be hard to digest, and increase fat.

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The chikkara deer is light, nourishing, sweet, and destroys humoral disorders; / equal to blackbuck meat, it is commended even in fevers.

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The rohita deer is nourishing, constipating, hard to digest, and dense; / it is avoided in fever-patients with irregular digestive fire, [and] in diarrhoea.

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Likewise, the rhinoceros, wild ox, buffalo, camel, and horse / are declared to be constipating, heavy, unctuous, and [aggravating] in wind and indolence.

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Pork destroys wind, is appetising, aphrodisiac, hard to digest, dispels exhaustion, / pacifies bile, imparts relish, and increases the bodily tissues.

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The hare is the best of dry-land animals: light, aphrodisiac, stimulating to digestion, / appetizing, nourishing, strengthening, and regarded as pacifying the three humours.

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It is beneficial in fever, anaemia disease, wasting, cough, rectal disorders, / consumption, anaemia, and likewise for those with diarrhoea.

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The pangolin is nourishing, strengthening, unctuous, aphrodisiac, and imparts relish; / it removes wind and phlegm, is cordial, sweet, and increases the bodily tissues.

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The porcupine is nourishing, strengthening, unctuous, aphrodisiac, and imparts relish; / it slightly increases wind, increases the bodily tissues, is sweet, and dense.

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The monitor lizard is stated to destroy internal haemorrhage, be aphrodisiac, unctuous, sweet, cooling, / destroying asthma and cough, beneficial for haemorrhoids, and strengthening.

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The rat is unctuous, strengthening, semen-increasing, sweet, light, / destroying haemorrhoids and worm disorders, and removing wind.

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Thus, in the Hārītottara spoken by Ātreya, the twentieth chapter, named the Group of Quadruped Meats.