And Translation.............. This immensely valuable text needed since long a faithful & simple trans-lation into English communication the ideas as they are without divulging into dogmatic details whi-ch make the situation terse paritculaely for a young scholar. This comes from the pen of two erud-ite scholars of Ayurveda who has dcvted the major part of the life in studying the text intensively from various angles & has command over both the languages concerned.