A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s2.78

v3.c42.s2.78

Noteworthy technical terms, occurring in the Bower MS, are: anuprayoga (II.55), after-diet, i.e., the type of food to be taken after the ingestion of a particular drug; ¹¹⁸ avabhedaka (II.512), a discharging application, for example an errhine; avakṣārī (II.91), a difficult term, taken by Hoernle to mean a lixivium, but possibly a corrupt reading; avalika, a term specifying a particular rasāyana that consists of finely powdered nāgabalā roots, stirred up in milk (II.753–758); āsu (I.55), regarded as identical with āsava; lāva rasa (II.1116); ¹¹⁹ piṣima (II.578), a paste; sasyikā (II.400), a faultless female animal; unmardana (II.1053), a liniment. ¹²⁰