Jain medical authors writing in Kannada

The editor lists medical works written in Kannada, from Kīrtivarma's Govaidya to Sāḷva's Rasaratnākara and Vaidyasāṅgatya, and says Somanātha's Kannada translation of Pūjyapāda's Kalyāṇakāraka, complete in the eight limbs, is the oldest medical work in Kannada. From a verse of Somanātha he concludes that Pūjyapāda's work used no wine, meat or honey and surpassed the works of Caraka and others, and he laments that the works of the many Jain medical authors are no longer seen and are being eaten by insects.