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19 NCC I, 7 and 348; IX, 228. AVI 425. NCC I, 7 refers to *JRAS*, NS 15, 312. Compare on Amṛtanandin and his nighaṇṭu: *Kalyāṇakāraka*. Amṛtanandin's work is called *Nighaṇṭukośa* (NCC: not recorded) by R. Bhaṭṇāgar (JAI 178–179), who adds that the work is available up to *sa* and was probably not completed by the author; Amṛtanandin's nighaṇṭu contains 22,000 words; the names of many medicinal plants in it betray the Jain origin of the work. See also V.P.P. Śāstrī (1984: 386), who refers for a description of the work to *Jain sāhitya kā bṛhat itihās* V, 231. Amṛtanandin's *Vaidyanighaṇṭu* was written in Kannada according to Pārśvanāth Śāstrī's Introduction (39) to his edition of Ugrāditya's *Kalyāṇakāraka*.