The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s3.28
The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s3.28
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∗ This nakhi according to Rumphius who describes ten kinds of the odoriferous onyx which serve as the basis of the principal perfumes in the Indian islands, (*Herb. Amb*, ii. c. 17) is the operculum or lid of the shells of *Purpura* and *Murex*, This being flat and something like a nail explains the origin of its name.—Royle's Antiquity of Hindu Medicine, page 144.