@Anand_Venkatram @Sapratha I have a partly written essay on this sUtra as it is a topic of considerable interest to me. I agree with Anand that the aconite toxin is one of the keys to this toxic arrow. Indeed, elsewhere in the arthashAstra, the kauTilya mentions vatsanAbha as one of the viSha-s collected
@Anand_Venkatram @Sapratha by the state. However what is of interest to me is the so-called muskrat: you are right that it is a wrong translation. sutra goes thus: рд╢рд╛рд▓реНрдорд▓реА рд╡рд┐рджрд╛рд░реА рдзрд╛рдиреНрдп рд╕рд┐рджреНрдзреЛ рдореВрд▓ рд╡рддреНрд╕рдирд╛рдн.рд╕рдореНрдпреБрдХреНрддрд╢реН рдЫреБрдЪреНрдЫреБрдиреНрджрд░реА рд╢реЛрдгрд┐рдд рдкреНрд░рд▓реЗрдкреЗрди рджрд┐рдЧреНрдзреЛ рдмрд╛рдгреЛ рдпрдВ рд╡рд┐рдзреНрдпрддрд┐ рд╕ рд╡рд┐рджреНрдзреЛ.рдЕрдиреНрдпрд╛рдиреН рджрд╢ рдкреБрд░реБрд╖рд╛рдиреН рджрд╢рддрд┐ рддреЗ рджрд╖реНрдЯрд╛
@Anand_Venkatram @Sapratha рджрд╢.рдЕрдиреНрдпрд╛рдиреН рджрд╢рдиреНрддрд┐ рдкреБрд░реБрд╖рд╛рдиреН ||
word is ChuChundarI which should be correctly translated as shrew. Why it is of interest to me is that kauTilya was ahead of his times & probably the first one to record a shrew toxin. To date the Haitian solenodon the European water shrew, the
word is ChuChundarI which should be correctly translated as shrew. Why it is of interest to me is that kauTilya was ahead of his times & probably the first one to record a shrew toxin. To date the Haitian solenodon the European water shrew, the
@Anand_Venkatram @Sapratha Mediterranean shrew, the American short-tailed shrew,&the East Asian shrew have been shown to be venomous. The American shrew's toxin is related to a toxin of the gila monster & the East Asian shrew's main toxin is related to a snail toxin. No one has studied the toxicity of the
@Anand_Venkatram @Sapratha Indian shrew but the fact that it stuns is prey upon biting suggests that it has an as yet uncharacterized toxin. Thus, despite the likely exaggerations of the effects this sUtra might be first record of shew toxicity though the medical saMhitA-s need to also be considered as
@Anand_Venkatram @Sapratha possible early records of the same. I also believe that vidArI in the sUtra is a likely hallucinogenic Ipomea that might account for at least part of the bizarre symptoms described in it.
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