A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c8.128

v1.c8.128

Articles of food (āhāra) are of one kind regarded as food, of two kinds with respect to their source: of vegetable and animal origin; they are of two kinds as to their effect: wholesome (hita) and unwholesome (ahita), of four kinds with regard to their way of intake: drinkable (pāna), eatable (aśana), chewable (bhakṣya) and suitable to be licked (lehya),463 of six kinds according to their taste, and of twenty kinds according to their properties (25.30–35).464