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532 Kharjura, Parushaka, Rajadana and Matulunga should be considered as the most commendable and efficacious. Of potherbs those- known as the Satina, Vastuka, Chuchchuka, Chilli, Mulaka-Potika, Mandakaparni, and Jivanti should be regarded as possessed of the most commendable properties. Cow's milk is the best of milks, and similarly, clarified butter made from the milk of a cow should be considered as pre-eminently the best and the most efficacious of clarified butters.

Saindhava salt is the best of all other salts. Dhatri and Dadimva fruit are the best of all the acid kinds ; Pippali and Nagara of all pungent, and Patola and Varlakam of all bitter vegetable substances. Honey and clarified butter occupy the highest place in the list of all sweet articles. Pugaphalam and Parushakam are the best of all astringent fruit. Sugar is pre-eminently the best of all the modifications of the sugar-cane juice, while Madvirka and Asava (grape-juice) are the best of all cordials. Similarly, the corn (lit : paddy) of a year's standing or matured for a year after being harvested, is the most efficacious. The flesh of a young animal, as well as well-cooked rice prepared, that day, fully ripe fruit, and fresh and tender potherbs should be deemed as the best of their respective kinds.

The kritanna varga:-Now we shall fully