A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.287

v3.c46.287

The fourth section, called saṃkīrṇavarga, which has no corresponding part in Vāgbhaṭa's work, has six subsections. The first of these is rather heterogeneous. The author remarks that he will enumerate in this subsection the synonyms of substances not yet dealt with. 262 It consists of synonyms of various organic and inorganic substances, odoriferous plants, tissues, colours, etc. The second subsection, called saṃjñāvarga, gives sets of names for plants already described in the first section; again and all its synonyms may, for example, be used to designate citraka, śīta and all it synonyms designate candana, etc. The third subsection, called ekārthavarga, is a list of names which are employed for only one plant. The fourth subsection, called dvyarthavarga, opens the homonymic part of the Abhidhānamañjarī, in which the meanings of the anekārthas are, as usual, given in the locative. The fifth subsection, called yarthavarga, is a list of names of medicinal substances which have three meanings each. The sixth and last subsection, the caturādyarthavarga, begins with series of medicinal substances which have four, five, etc., meanings each. The last part contains verses on the synonyms for weights and measures, on rules prescribing the quantities of the ingredients of compound drugs, and on the synonyms for particular medicinal preparations.