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A collection of a hundred verses, on the medicinal properties of the usual articles of our food, divided into several vargas by Trimalla-bhatta, son of Vallabhabhatta, a Tailangana and a resident of Benaras. See above No. 126 for his Alankaramanjari, and below, No. 183 for his Yogatarangini. For other MSS. of S’atas’loki,cf. Burnell, Tanjore MSS., p. 72b; Stein,p. 183; Peterson, Reports, IV. Nos. 1038; 1097-98; Bhandarkar, Report, 1882-83, p. 36 &c.The work is also called Pathyapathyanighantu ; see Bhandarkar, Private MSS., p. 116. Trimalla quotes Virasinhavaloka (1383 A. D.) in his Yogatarangini and a MS. of his Dravyaguna-s’atas’loki ( Mitra, Notices, vol. I. p. 109, No.203) is dated Samvat 1555, i. e. A. D. 1499.Trimalla’s date, therefore, falls between 1383 and 1499 A. D. Rasaratnapradipa, a work of Trimalla’s son, is quoted in the famous Todarananda;cf. Bendall, Brit. Mus. Sk. MSS., p. 212. |