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AYURVEDIC MEDICINE / VARANASI IMPRINT: अथभाषाटीकासहिता अनुपानमंजरी

850.00

[Ajirņamamiñjari also Ajirna Manjari / Indigestion with Explanation and Commentary]

 

A rare book in Sanskrit, printed in Varanasi, India, and describing remedies for indigestion, based on the Ayurvedic medicine

 

Large 8°, title page, 25 pp., contemporary dark red cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover, contemporary patterned endpapers (little age-toned, tiny tears in margins, binding and endpapers with light water-staining in the upper margins, boards with little wear, ghost of a paper stamp on the spine).

 

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काशिराज [Kāśirāja], Traditional Author; वाराणसी प्रसाद [Varanasi Prasad], Editor;

Varanasi: संस्कृत प्रेस [Sanskrit Press] 1882.

 

The author of this medical text on indigestion is traditionally a (17th century?) writer Kāśirāja, known for the topics of dietetics and culinary art. The text, written in verses, describes various types of indigestions and how to cure the diseases with various types of food and traditional recipes.

We could trace one institutional example of the book, held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi (615.536 MAT).