64 Journal of Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine | January-March 2015 | Vol 6 | Issue 1 Address for correspondence: Dr. C. N. Vishnuprasad, School of Life Sciences, Trans‑disciplinary University (TDU), 74/2, Jarakabande Kaval, Attur, Via Yelahanka, Bengaluru ‑ 560 106, Karnataka, India. E‑mail: drcnvp@gmail.com Received: 25‑Nov‑2014 Revised: 30‑Jan‑2015 Accepted: 16‑Feb‑2015 Dravyagunasatasloki of Trimallabhatta C. N. Vishnuprasad Publisher: National Mission for Manuscripts, New Delhi and Nag Publishers, New Delhi, India Year: 2014 Binding: Hardback Pages: XXVIII + 108 Price: INR 250.00 ISBN: 978‑93‑80829‑23‑4 The magnificent knowledge repository in Sanskrit literature, encompassing almost all domains, is a uniqueness of the Indian systems of traditional knowledge. Besides the well‑known branches like arts and philosophy, several scientiic and technical subjects are also been comprehensively documented in Sanskrit literature. Nevertheless, many of them are still remaining as manuscripts themselves and their unavailability in the print form make them inaccessible to a vast majority of the people. Therefore in this context, the timely and logical approaches of Government of India’s National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM, New Delhi) to safeguard and disseminate the knowledge contents in manuscripts through publications and digitization are worth mentioning. A recently published book titled “Dravyagunasatasloki of Trimallabhatta” is one good example of the signiicant outcomes of the NMM’s vision and mission. The author Trimallabhatta is believed to be lived in the irst half of the 17 th century in Kasi, North India. He is the author of three other medical works viz. Yogatarangini, Brhadyogatarangini and Vaidyacandrodaya. The text Dravyagunasatasloki consists of 102 “Slokas” (verses) beautifully composed in long meters with poetic excellence. Besides its scientiic and technical merits, its poetic excellence is also exceptional. Further, the value additions done by the editors to this publication made it an imperative reference text for both scholars and researchers of Ayurveda and Sanskrit. The present edition of Dravyagunasatasloki by Dr. C. M. Neelakandhan and Dr.S. A. S. Sarma is based on three manuscripts, two from Oriental Research Institute and Manuscript Library, University of Kerala, India and one from Welcome Library, London; plus one printed edition of Dravyagunasatasloki (with a Hindi commentary namely Puspavali by Saligramavaisya) published by Srivenkatesvara Press, Bombay, India in 1896. This printed edition is also collected from Welcome Library, London. Dr. Neelakandhan, a well‑known Sanskrit scholar, is an author/editor of several nationally and internationally acclaimed books in the ields of Sanskrit Sahitya, Vedic studies and Indology. Dr. S.A.S. Sarma is an active researcher who has several important publications to his credit mainly in the areas of Indology and Manuscriptology. The long‑term abiding research proiciency of the editors in manuscriptology and Sanskrit literature is very well reflected in this work, particularly through the value additions done to this book in the form of appendices. As stated in the preface of the book, the editors primarily aimed at presenting the Dravyagunasatasloki text, which remained unnoticed for more than a century, to the modern researchers. They have judiciously done the presentation of the text in its naive form without any interpretations or new commentaries and thus provided a wider window for an unprejudiced and critical reading by scholars related to the subject area. The Hindi commentary Puspavali included in this publication is a reproduction of its Bombay edition, and it certainly helps to understand the contents of the text by non‑Sanskrit readers as well. The variant readings of the text based on the above‑mentioned manuscripts are also included as foot notes in the respective pages of BOOK REVIEW Access this article online Quick Response Code: Website: www.jaim.in [Downloaded free from http://www.jaim.in on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, IP: 182.72.231.130] || Click here to download free Android application for this journal