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By svasd is meant a sister. All diseases (are said to be) due to air, or 
bile, or phlegm. (28) A disguise is called ajnci (incognito). Something 
dispatched is said to be nutta. . (29) Talpa should be known to be a 
bed. (30) Kilasa should be known to be a kind of jaundice. A swing 
is termed prenkhd. (32) A war they call pradhana ; it is also known 
as aydcUiana. (34) That charm which contains the simha-nata (?, nata 
is Taberncemontana coronaria ) should be known to be the Vrinddraka 
(i. e., best of its kind). 28 (35) [ Nrijhana should be understood to be the 
king of the Pretas. By sushmin (i. e., powerful) is meant Maghavan. 
(36) By kumblitta is meant a crocodile. The tortoise is said to be 
gudhanga, (i. e., having hidden limbs). (37) By kdraka is meant a 
paid servant. (38) TJtthya should be known to be that which is ex- 
cellent. By mallera is meant squinting. (39) Excessive spasmodic con- 
traction is known by the name of martya (i. e., mortal). By yotra, 
indeed, should be known that which is the means of distilling the 
Soma extract. (41) A death which is not preceded by any illness 
is praised as vipra (i. e., excellent). (42) A kundasin is a keeper 
of harlots. A garment [fit to be worn by] a Maharaja is one which re- 
sembles flowers and the omentum. (43) A lehaka (licker, lisper) is one 
who does not speak plainly. (44) Turiya should be (understood to 
be) a quarter. (49) A mystery (plot P) harmonizing in time is what 
the poets know as kartsnita ( kritsnata , or completeness). (52) Whose 
state possesses its seven constituent elements, and whose country is free 
of disturbance (53) To whom kings pay tribute, and whose 
people are never conquered (56) An upavana, (grove or small 
forest) takes its name from a forest ( vana ). (57) A lotus is known as 
reju or rdjiva or chatrapattavati (cf. Skr. satapatra). 
This clearly shows that the work is some Sanskrit vocabulary or 
“ kosha.” Perhaps it may be possible, hereafter, to identify it with some 
one of the existing and known koshas ; or it may turn out to be a new 
and hitherto unknown kosha- work. It appears to contain a good number 
of new words. 
On the left-hand margin of the reverse of the last-copied leaf, 
opposite to the 3rd and 4tli lines, there are faint traces left of the 
number 6. This, therefore, is the sixth leaf of the manuscript. As 
there are, on the average, 8 slokas on a page, or 16 on a leaf, there 
should be about 90 slokas (allowing a blank page to commence with) 
on the six initial leaves of the work. As the 6th leaf, however, only 
brings us down to the middle of the 40th sloka, it may be concluded, 
that the work was divided in chapters ( adhyayas ), and that the 40 
23 This is puzzling. Perhas tara/i is a clerical error for narah, and the meaning 
may be “ one who has subdued a lion is a Vrind6.ra.lca." 
