A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c48.s2.15

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Chapter five (ratnoparatnasādhanādhyāya; 184 verses and some passages in prose) describes the precious (ratna) and semi-precious (uparatna) stones. The subjects of this chapter are: generalities about gems (1–3); the names of the nine major gems according to the Rasapaddhati and Viṣṇudharmottara(purāṇa) (4–6ab); the names of a num-