A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.37

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72 Śarabhendra, also called Serfojī, son of Tulajī II, was one of the Mahratta kings of Tanjore, who reigned from A.D. 1798 to 1832. He was the patron of many scholars and was mainly responsible for the development of the Sarasvatī Mahāl Library at Tanjore; he also compiled a large medical treatise in Marāṭhī, the Śarabhendravaidyaratnāvalī, consisting of a collection of more than five thousand recipes. See on this work: N. Gangadharan (1922): 156; V.S. Venkatasubramania Sastri and C. Rajarajeswara Sarma (1974): 34–36. The Śarabhendravaidyaratnāvalī has been edited in Marāṭhī and in a Tamil translation (the latter edited by K. Vāsudeva Cāstri and S. Veṅkaṭarājan, title: Carapentirar Vaittiyamuraikaḷ, vols. 1–9, Tañcai 1949–1957).