The editor says Samantabhadra also gives the quantities for preparing medicines in codes based…

The editor says Samantabhadra also gives the quantities for preparing medicines in codes based on Jain doctrine. For rasasindūra the text reads 'sūtaṁ kesari-gandhakaṁ mṛga…': each tīrthaṅkara has an emblem (lāñchana), and the quantity is the number of the tīrthaṅkara whose emblem is named; the lion (kesarī) is the emblem of Mahāvīra, so mercury is 24 parts, and the deer (mṛga) is the emblem of the sixteenth tīrthaṅkara, so sulphur is 16 parts, and so on. Such coded and technical words are used throughout his work.

Why it is kept for review: Jain medical tradition (coded quantities in Samantabhadra's work).

केसरी महावीर का चिह्व है, केसरि शब्द से 24 संरुया का ग्रहण होना चाहिए। अर्थात् रस 24 गंधक मृग अर्थात् मृग सोलहवें तीथँकर का चिह्व होने से गंधक 16, इत्यादि प्रकार से अर्थ ग्रहण करना चाहिए।