Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c17.70

c17.70

(3) Nighaṇṭuśeṣa. A botanical glossary in 396 verses, being a supplement to Abhidhānacintāmaṇi (edited by Bohtlingk). It is in fact a supplement to verses 1131-1201 (Vanaspatikāya) i. e. to the chapter to which Hemacandra has not written any śeṣa. The small work is divided into 6 kāṇḍas of unequal extent which, according to the serial order, treat with vṛkṣa, gulma, latā, tṛṇa and dhānya. Accidentally the chapter on varieties of lotus (III, 323-331), as well as the entire dhānyakāṇḍa coincide with the corresponding sections of Abhidhānacintāmaṇi (1160 ff., 1168 ff.). The chapter on precious stones about which Bühler speaks (of course on the authority of an oral communication with Dr. Bhau Daji) is not found in the present edition. This edition (Abhidhānasaṃgraha II, No. 2) shows a big gap at the beginning of the first kāṇḍa and a few smaller gaps in the other kāṇḍas. An old MS of this work is recorded by Peterson, 5th Report, p. 23. It is a palm leaf MS written 15 years after the death of Hemacandra. It would not be difficult to prepare an edition of this work, more correct and complete than the Bombay edition, with the help of this MS. There does not appear any comm. on Nighaṇṭuśeṣa.