A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.245

v4.c63.245

28 He mentions, for example, that he follows Suśruta in his enumeration of poisonous substances of vegetable origin (I.4.9–11); he gives his own series of (mahā)rasas: abhra, vaikrānta, mākṣika, vimala, adrija, sasyaka, capala, and rasaka (II.3.4), and defends his choices (prose between II.3.4 and 5).