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Publication of SARMA, S. A. S., (EFEO) & NEELAKANDHAN, C.M., (2014), Dravyagunasatasloki of Trimallabhatta: A critical edition with introduction
07 MARCH 14
Publication of SARMA, S. A. S., & NEELAKANDHAN, C.M., (2014), Dravyagunasatasloki of Trimallabhatta: A critical edition with introduction, National Mission for Manuscripts & Nag Publishers (Kritibodha Series 5), New Delhi, xxvi, 108 p. Dravyaguṇaśataślokī is a work on the medicinal properties and uses of articles of food and some other substances of daily use, by  Trimallabhaṭṭa, who flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. The text is composed in hundred and one verses mostly in long meters with various alaṃkāras. The substances dealt with are divided into fifteen groups (varga) namely, water, milk and dairy produce, grain and pulse, meat, vegetables, the sugarcane and its products, honey, oils, fruits, spices and condiments, prepared dishes, fermented liquids, substances used for massage and bathing, pān (tāmbūla) and inorganic substances.In this publication, we furnish a critical edition of the Dravyaguṇaśataślokī based on three manuscripts and an edition of 1953. In the introduction to the edition, a study of the author and his works as well as the details of the commentary Dravyadīpikā by Kṛṣṇadatta on the Dravyaguṇaśataślokī are discussed. The Hindi translation that is published in the 1953 edition is reproduced and the book concludes with an appendix that contains two articles (‘editing scientific texts' and ‘scientific texts in Sanskrit'), relevant chapters of Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya on dravyavijñāna and a list of manuscripts on Āyurveda that are available in the major manuscript libraries of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.


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