Special features of the present work

The closing section of the introduction says the Kalyāṇakāraka is finely composed and its many formulas are new and distinctive; it covers the cause, prodromes, pathogenesis, treatment and prognosis of each disease, gives rasa, rasāyana and kalpa preparations in separate chapters and a section on fatal signs, and for the sake of non-violence uses no wine, meat or honey in any formula. It recalls Seṭh Rāvjī Sakhārām Dośī's efforts, praises the editor and the multilingual plant glossary, and is signed by Gangādhar Gopāl Guṇe on 1-2-1940.