Chapter on the wholesome and the unwholesome (hitahita)

A Sanskrit prose chapter, printed here without a Hindi commentary, that argues from the Jain doctrine of syadvada that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect. It rejects the one-sided view that some things are absolutely wholesome and others absolutely unwholesome, and holds, citing Sushruta and Charaka, that substance, taste, potency and post-digestive effect are in some respects one and in some respects different. It then argues at length that honey, liquor and meat have no place in medicine, calling the meat passages of other medical texts later additions by meat-loving authors, and discusses food, the dhatus, measures and the times for medicine along the way.