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43 This may be a variety of āluka. 44 This may be an Amaranthus species (compare M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 104). 45 Cakravartin is one of the names of Chenopodium album Linn. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 384) and Rumex vesicarius Linn. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 1413). 46 Some species of Barringtonia are called samudraphala (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nrs. 214 and 215). 47 Identified as Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gurke (see WIRM III, 85). 48 Identified as Alstonia venenata R.Br. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 99). 49 Nala’s work may also be quoted as Sūdaśāstra. See: Sūdaśāstra. 50 A plant called ālopaka occurs in Soḍhala’s Gadanigraha (kaumāra 12.78), a plant called humkāra in the Ṣaḍrasanighaṇṭu (6.53). 51 See C.P. Masica (1979): 123; G. Wojtilla (1999): 10. 52 NCC XII, 3. STMI 166: appears to be a portion of some exhaustive medical treatise; gives directions for the preparation of pākas to be used as specific remedies; some of these pākas are: āsālīyapāka, aśvagandhipāka, gokṣarupāka, madhupakvāmālā, nālikerapāka, pippalipāka, vidārīpāka, vr̥ddhayoṣarupāka. Bodleian d.735(1) (see D. Wujastyk, 1990: 98). AVI 445. 53 NCC XII, 3. AVI 445. 54 NCC XII, 3. STMI 166: deals with medicinal pākas; some of these are: eraṇḍīpāka, gokṣarupāka, jāvitrīpāka, kaucapāka, nālikerapāka, pippalīpāka, soparīpāka. Cat. Oxford Nr. 758: contains an eraṇḍīpāka, gokṣarupāka, jāvitrīpāka, kañcāpāka, nālikerapāka, pippalīpāka, soparīpāka. 55 NCC XII, 3. 56 NCC XII, 3. One of the MSS dates from A.D. 1766/67 (see P.K. Gode, 1944b: 177). 57 NCC XII, 1. 58 CC II, 74: Pākamārtaṇḍa or Pākāvalī, III, 71. NCC XII, 1: extracts from a medical work. STMI 166: written at Vārḍākṣetra. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 129: later than the Pākāvalī which it quotes; written at Vārḍākṣetra on the northern bank of the river Kr̥ṣṇā. Kavīndrācāryasūcipatram, Nr. 1046. R. Nambiyar (1950), Nr. 111. AVI 445. 59 The Poona MS starts with paribhāṣās borrowed from the Pākāvalī (see CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 129). 60 STMI 166. 61 See CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 129. 62 See K. Śarmā Suvedī (1995). 63 NCC XII, 1. STMI 166: a small treatise on the preparation of some pākas and some remedies against fevers. 64 NCC: not recorded. Edition: kāśīnāthātmaja-gaṇeśaśarmaviracita-bhāṣāṭīkāsahita, Lakṣmīveṅkaṭeśvar Press, Bombay 1909/10. 65 NCC: not recorded. AVI 445. *Edited, Bombay 1920 or 1924. 66 NCC XII, 3. CBORI XVI, 1, Nr. 132. AVI 445. 67 See P.K. Gode (1950a). 68 Listed by P.K. Gode (1950a). 69 Bhilāvā is the Marāṭhī name of Semecarpus anacardium Linn.f. (WIRM IX, 271). 70 Dālcinī is the Hindī name of Cinnamomum zeylanicum Breyn (WIRM II, 179). 71 Kaucha is probably Mucuna pruriens (Linn.) DC. = M. prurita Hook. (see WIRM VI, 442). 72 Kuḍā is the Marāṭhī name of Holarrhena antidysenterica (Linn.) Wall. (WIRM V, 103).