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The page treats Udoy Chand Dutt's The Materia Medica of the Hindus of 1877 as a source on cannabis: the book, how Dutt compiled it and its article on Cannabis sativa (pp. 235–241) with the note on kāmeśvara modaka (p. 250). A revised edition of 1900 is not covered.
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- The page is cited from the Wellcome Collection scan of the copy held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, inscribed by the author (xvi, 354 pp.). The title page reads "Udoy Chand Dutt, Civil Medical Officer"; the person page is titled Uday Chandra Dutt, the form already linked from Vijaya.
- The account of the book's method is from Dutt's preface. Part II, on plant drugs, begins on p. 97 and Part III, on animal drugs, on p. 275.
- Abhilas Chandra Mukerjee's evidence to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (vol. IV, witness 63, p. 169) repeats the end of the cannabis article (the leaf's purification, its use in sleeplessness, the three recipes and the confections) with "vide" references added: Darpana for the sleeplessness sentence (p. 168), Saranga Dhara, Bhaba Prakas and Sara Kaumudi for the recipes.
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Dutt prints each recipe's Sanskrit in a footnote and, by his preface, the work named under it shows where the text is found. The footnote under jātīphalādya churna ends with the name Śārṅgadhara, which agrees with Mukerjee and with the Ayurvedic Formulary of India. The other footnotes on pp. 239–241 are not legible enough in the scan to read the work named, so the article takes the attributions for jvālānala rasa and madana modaka from Mukerjee and gives them as his.