A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1223

v3.c46.1223

Chapter two mentions Garuḍa's desire to become a destroyer of the Nāgas (2.49: nāgadāraṇa). Chapter nineteen is about snakes, their bites, and mantras providing protection. Chapter twenty-seven consists of a long mantra said to destroy the poison of all kinds of venomous snakes. Chapter fifty is concerned with daily regimen. Chapters sixty-three and sixty-four describe bodily marks of men and women (narastrīlakṣaṇa), together with their predictive meaning. Chapter sixty-five deals with the same subject according to Samudra. 599 Chapter sixty-seven is about svarodayaśāstra, called pavanavijaya in the colophon. 600 Chapters sixty-eight to eighty are concerned with ratnaparīkṣā, the science dealing with precious and semi-precious stones; 601 their contents agree for the greater part with Buddhabhaṭṭa's Ratnaparīkṣā. 602