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liḥ 33, 1st ed., Poona 1896 [BL. 14003.ccc.(no. 33)]; 2nd ed., Poona 1925; this edition is based on sixteen MSS (see the ādarśapustakollekhapattrikā). f rājanighaṇṭuḥ, mahāmahopādhyāyaśrīmannaraharipaṇḍitaviracitaḥ, ...āśubodhavidyābhūṣaṇabhaṭṭācaryeṇa tathā nityabodhavidyāratnabhaṭṭācaryeṇa ca deśāntarābhidhānena saṃkṣiptaṭīkayā ca samalamkṛtaḥ saṃskṛtaḥ sajjīkṛtaḥ prakāśitaś ca, Siddheśvar Press, Calcutta, 1st ed., 1899 [I0.1664]; 2nd ed., 1933. g śrīmannaraharipaṇḍitaviracitaḥ rāja-nighaṇṭuḥ, ‘dravyaguṇaprakāśikā’ hindīvyākhyāsahitaḥ, vyākhyākāraḥ Dr. Indradeva Tripāṭhī, Kṛṣṇadāsa Āyurveda Series 5, Vārāṇasī 1982; *ed. 1998. References are to ed. g, ed. 1982. ed. e is the only one provided with an index. Ed. g contains the botanical names of the plants described (these scientific names are unreliable due to innumerable printing errors). Chapter thirteen (suvarṇādivarga) has been edited and translated into German by Richard Garbe: Die indischen Mineralien, ihre Namen und die ihnen zugeschriebenen Kräfte, Narahari’s Rājanighaṇṭu Varga XIII, Sanskrit und Deutsch, mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen herausgegeben, Leipzig 1882, reprinted Hildesheim 1974. See on the Rājanighaṇṭu also: Alix Raison (1984); Bāpālāl Vaidya (1982), Appendix XV, 607–612. 569 This is the title found in one of the introductory verses (4) and in the colophons of ed. e. 570 The work is called thus at the end of the second chapter and in the colophons of ed. e. Variants occur in the concluding verses of several vargas, e.g., Abhidhānaracanācūḍāmaṇi (varga 3), Nāmakaṇḍaparisaccūḍāmaṇi (varga 5), Nāmagrāmaśikhāmaṇi (varga 6), etc. 571 Compare DGV IV, 292–294; V. Dvivedī (1966): 190–228. 572 Their number is 3,685 in ed. f (C. Vogel, IL 376). The metres of the suvarṇādivarga have been analyzed by R. Garbe (1974: 30–31). 573 According to ed. e (atritanūdbhava); ed. g reads tritanūdbhava (i.e., Dattātreya). 574 See on Lāṭa: N.N. Bhattacharyya (1991): 202–203; N. Dey (1979): 114; B.C. Law (1984): 287–288. 575 I.e., trees connected with the asterism of one’s birth; a nakṣatravṛkṣa has to be protected and cannot be used for medicinal purposes. 576 Called vīrudvarga at the end of the chapter; it contains creepers and climbing plants. 577 Called kṣupavarga at the end of the chapter; it contains shrubby plants and large herbs. 578 Called kṣudrakṣupavarga; it contains herbs. 579 Called panyauṣadhavarga; it contains drugs sold in the market. 580 Called śākavarga and consisting of vegetables. 581 This chapter is about thorny trees (kaṇṭakivitapin) and grasses (tṛṇa). 582 This chapter deals with trees growing wild (vanyamahīruha). 583 This chapter is concerned with plants with medicinally used flowers or leaves. 584 This chapter is about trees and climbers with eatable or medicinally useful fruits. 585 This chapter deals with fragrant substances (gandhadravya). 586 This chapter describes metals, minerals, mercury and allied substances, gems, etc. (lauhadhātu-rasa-ratna). 587 E.g., sadāpuṣpa = ravidruma (ekārthāḥ 1); compare karavīrādi 26–27: sadāpuṣpa = ravi, and karavīrādi 111: sadāpuṣpa = kunda. 588 E.g., gardabhī = kaṭabhī (ekārthāḥ 42); compare prabhadrādi 144–145 on the names of kaṭabhī: gardabhī is not mentioned.