Puṣpāyurveda (the Ayurveda of flowers)

The editor says the Jain sages, so that no creature, not even a one-sensed being, should suffer in making medicines, composed a Puṣpāyurveda giving rasāyana preparations from pollen-free flowers of eighteen thousand kinds, preserved in a Kannada script he dates to the third century BCE, and claims no one but Jain ācāryas ever wrote such a work. He describes Samantabhadra's seat at Gerasappā, its temples, and the legend of a perfected mercury well there that can be seen with the sarvāñjana collyrium described in the Puṣpāyurveda.