Preliminary submission

The editor says he is neither a physician nor a systematic student of Ayurveda, so errors are possible, and credits two physician friends of Mumbai and Ahmednagar with the revision. He explains that Jain ācāryas wrote on medicine and astrology as well as logic, poetics and philosophy, laments that Digambara Jains neglect and even obstruct the publication of their literature, so that no medical work had appeared, and tells how Seṭh Rāvjī Sakhārām Dośī obtained a copy from the Mysore Government Library and asked him to edit and translate it.