A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c29.173.1

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464 The twenty guṇas are enumerated. Cf. Ca.Śā.6.10; Cakra ad Ca.Sū.1.49. 465 A bird called pākahamsa is mentioned. K.N. Dave (1985: 427, 430–431) identifies this bird as the mute swan, *Cygnus olor* (Gmelin). See Cakra's remarks on jīvantī, the godhā (varan) and the fish called rohita as the most wholesome items of the groups they belong to. See on the rohita: Ca.Sū.27.82cd–83ab. 466 Beef (gomāmsa) is the most unwholesome among the flesh of the mrga group of animals (see Ca.Sū.27.35–37ab); the most unwholesome fish is the cilicima (also mentioned at Ca. Sū.26.83 and 84); the kāṇakapota is the most unwholesome bird; the fat (vasā) of the kā-kamadgu (called pāṇiyakākikā by Cakra; compare: plava and madgu) is the most unwholesome fat among that of the aquatic birds. Cf. Su.Sū.46.332–339. K.N. Dave (1985: 372) identifies the kākamadgu as the small cormorant. 467 See P.V. Sharma (1991c). Cf. Su.Sū.46.332–339. 468 See on āsavas: V.S. Bajpeyi et al. (1985); M.J. Indira Ammal et al. (1976); D. Joshi and C.B. Jha (1990); J. Lal, S.K. Dutta and P.V. Sharma (1973); Muzafeer Alam et al. (1983); Muzaffer Alam et al. (1977), (1984), (1986); V. Narayanaswami, V.N. Sundararajan and S. Saradambal (1967); G.B. Pande, P.J. Mehta and M.V. Dholakia (1978); N.N. Pandey and M. Shukla (1997); R.C. Saxena (1977); C. Seshadri and P.N. Krishnan Nambisan (1976a), (1976b), (1977); B.N. Sharma, S.K. Dutta and P.V. Sharma (1975); V.N. Sundararajan et al. (1969). 469 See on drākṣāsava: Muzaffer Alam et al.