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PREFACE
While every session witnesses a tremendous outpour of the se called sommentaries on Ayurvedic Books from the Press an apology seems necessary for the production of the present work.
That the book has univessally been approved by the present Scholars of Ayurveda as a sagacious and conenient access to enter the vast science of Ayurveda, is evident from the fact that the leading institutes of Ayurveda have with a singular coincidence, chosen it as the fit text for the beginners of Ayurveda. A suitable commer tary on this Nighantu for the students of Ayurveda, therefore, is not an unnecessary labour.
This may not satisfy the fastidious critic and he might still assert with this professional frown, that these are translations extant in tha same line, and another work in the same ine is a futile
labour.
In response to this I can only request him to alienate my humble work from that line. The work in this line in many cases, though written by professional parasites of Ayurvede, have elearly ommitted the texts, whenever they invite some racking of the brain, and replaced by the convenient and self-made texts, which fail to follow the chain. In many places most confounding and misleading transliations have been cansciously given to hide the inability of rightly understanding the tex. The text in such cases itself than to be distorted into such crude forms,
were better left to
I have endeavoured, in the present translation to clear out such ntricate points, and made the best effort I could to simplify the work for the young students of Ayurveda.
I must not forget to acknowlege the great help rendered te me by Pandit Hari Sharma Shastri, Vaidya Bhushan, which enabled me to bring forth this work with great convenience, and much sooner than anticipated.
Patiala.
7th June 1926.
SHIV SHARMA.
Aho! Shrutgyanam
