Book Title: Mansollas Satik Part 01
Author(s): Bhulakmalla Someshwar, G K Shrigonderkar
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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________________ India in general. The omission of the Kāveri is worth notioing. It is probable also that in this particular he has followed the Brahma Parāṇa which also mentions the rivers in the same strain.* The three slokas treating of Jvara (p. 18, śl. 188-190) are taken from an earlier work on medicine lvy Vāgbhaça, but the other slokas have not been traced so far. In this Adhyāya and in the Adhyāyas of Asvavaidyaka and Gajacikitsă it is worth noting that all the medicines mentioned are those propared from medicinal plants. There is no mention of Bhasma, etc or medicines prepared from métals like iron, gold, etc. In the first Vimsati the longest is the 19th Adbyāya called the Dinānāthabandhubhrtyaposaņādbyāya. Here the necessity of appointing excellent physicians and free distribution of medicines is omphasized. Someśvara might have realized that people must necessarily love a king who takes care of them when they are in distrese. The second Vimsati opens with an enumeration of the necessary qualifications of the king. Rasāyana comes next to make the king healthy and strong. Then he mentions the different officers required for the State, along with their requisite qualifications. Among the qualifications of the royal cook, one is Asambhedya ( who cannot be bought over by the King's enemies ) and the other is Kţtānnasya Parikşaka ( able to examine carefully the king's See blokas 33 and 34 of the 1st Adhyāya of GautamiMāhātmya in the Brahma Parāna: Anandasrama editio p. 190. Aho ! Shrutgyanam

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