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DEDICATION.
TO
Vaidya Ratna Pandit Ram Prasad
Raj Vaidya of Patiala.
Whose Solicitude for the advancement of Ayurveda has manifested itself in such glorious success, whose sympathies for suffering humanity are highly genuine, and whose fount of Knowledge has incessiintly been supplying the author amongst thousand others, with inspirations that have been the main cause of the production of this work, this Commentary entitled the Shiv Prakashika is very respectfully dedicated by.
His most dutiful & obedient Son
SHIV SHARMA.
Aho! Shrutgyanam