A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.261

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531 The treatise contains more than 7,600 verses according to H. Zimmer (1976: 165); the number of ślokas is said to be 12,000 in the text itself (I.4.103cd–104ab). The portions in prose and those in verse do not form a unity, but point to at least two different sources for the Hastyāyurveda. One and the same subject is more than once dealt with in different chapters (see, e.g., III.9.100cd–135 and III.19 on the sirās).