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Section Five
Food and Medical Sciences
Foods and medicines are essential to sustain and maintain life. They are also necessary for religious performance and moving towards spiritual development through austerities. The Jaina seers have dealt with these subjects and their descriptions are very interesting and useful. This section has two chapters:
(i) Food sciences and
(ii) Medical sciences.
They deal with the canonical contents on these topics. Though there is great similarity in material inferences regarding object and functions of food and medicines with respect to the current times, however, the approach to physical descriptions have some basic differences which allow us to gauge the gradual fineness attained in these fields over the canonical periods.
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