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32. Raychaudhuri, p.99 gives translation of verses from the Vṛkṣāyurveda of Surapāla on manures and manuring in two sets, pp. 48-52 (verses 101-7, 112b-14, 118-26, 128-57, 159) and pp. 52-55 (verses 82-85, 112-61) without indicating their relationship, which is confusing. See Gopal, 1980, pp. 104-8 where the passage in the first set are reproduced as being from the Vṛkṣāyurveda of Surapāla. The text has now been critically edited by Rahul Peter Das (Stuttgart, 1988). The second set of verses belong to it. The first set is derived from an anonymous manuscript entitled Vṛkṣāyurveda. Rahul Peter Das, pp. 19-52 has shown that many authors drew on Surapāla's Vṛkṣāyurveda.