A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.5

v3.c43.5

This first section of the work is followed by a second, heterogeneous one, called viprakīrṇa, about various medicinal plants, vegetables and fruits (203–286), inorganic substances (287–311ab), poisons (311cd–312), aquatic plants (313–317ab), flowers (317cd–322), liquids, dairy produce, products of the sugarcane, and oils (323–328ab), fermented drinks (328cd–332ab), cow's urine and cow dung (332cd), cereals, pulse and sesamum (333–340), technical terms denoting groups of drugs, such as triphalā, etc. (341–342), names for 'drug' (343ab), animals (343cd–372), the dhātus and doṣas (373–378ab), various terms (378cd–379), the earth, sun, planets and some related terms (380–391ab), deities (391cd–400), terms relating to plants (401–404), and terms relating to medicine in general (405–406). The treatise ends with two verses dedicated to Dhanvantari and the Aśvins.