A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.80

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68 See G. Mukhopādhyāya (1913): 249; (1914): plate LXVI. Compare the quotations from an unknown source in the commentaries of Cakra and Dalhaṇa. The āṭī, also called (jala)vardhanī, is a bird, identified as Acridotheres ginginianus (Latham) (= Turdus ginginianus Latham of MW and PW), the bank myna; it is called āḍi or āḍī and regarded as an aquatic bird in the Hāritasaṃhitā (I.20.11; 22.2). Compare Amarakoṣa 2.5.26. K.N. Dave (1985: 352) identifies the āṭī as the black ibis; see on Pseudibis papillosa papillosa (Temminck), the Indian black ibis: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 1, 112–113.