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It has 25 chapters (pariccheda) and an appendix with the Riṣṭādhyāya, the Hitādhyāya and the Vanauṣadhiśabdādarśa, a glossary giving medicine names in Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.
Detailed answer
The introduction adds that for each disease the work treats the cause, prodromal signs, pathogenesis, treatment and curability together, sets out rasa, rasāyana and kalpa preparations in separate chapters, and has a section on fatal signs. Rai Bahadur Narasiṁhācārya, quoted by the editor, says the work opens by dividing medicine into prevention and cure and ends with a long Sanskrit prose discourse on the uselessness of a flesh diet.
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- Question
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Front matter
- Extraction tasks
- T01
- Record id
- qa_T01_02