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474 tend to produce retention of the urine, and enrage the bodily Vayu and the Pittam. Of these the species known as the Kodrava, Nivara, Shyamaka and Shantanu have a sweet and astringent taste and prove curative in Sheeta pitta (urticaria). The four (black, red, yellow and white) varieties of Priyangus reduce the Kapham and produce a parched condition in the body, each preceding species being superior as regards its virtues to the one immediately following it in the order of enumeration. The species Madhulikas as well as the one known as the Nandimukhi is sweet, cool and demulcent. The species Varuka and Mukundaka are largely possessed of absorbing virtues. The species Venu-yava, is parchifying, and heat-making in its potency and is pungent of digestion, brings on retention of the urine, subdues the deranged Kapham, and tends to enrage the bodily Vayu. The several varieties of pulse (Vaidala) commonly used as food are known as the Mudga, Vana-Mudga, Kalaya, Makushtha, Masura, Mangalya, Chanaka, Satina, Triputa, Harenu, and Adhaki, etc.

Metrical Texts:—They are generally cool and pungent of digestion, and have a sweet and astringent taste. They generate the Vayu, arrest the flow of urine and the evacuation of stool, and subdue the Pittam and Kapham. The species known as the Mudga does not excessively generate Vayu in the system but tends to purify and invigorate the