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Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Vartakādi (वर्तकादि) is the Sanskrit name for the first sub-group of Viṣkira, “birds who eat while scattering the grains”, the meat of which is used as a medicinal substance. Viṣkira itself is a sub-group of Māṃsavarga (“group of meat”). It is a technical term used throughout Āyurveda. They were originally composed by Caraka in his Carakasaṃhitā sūtrasthāna XXVII.

The Vartakādi sub-group contains the following animals:

  1. Vārtika (grey partridge),
  2. Vartaka (male bustard),
  3. Barhi (peacock),
  4. Tittira (partridge),
  5. Kukkuṭa (cock),
  6. Kaṅka (heron),
  7. Śārapada (stork),
  8. Indrābha (anjutant),
  9. Gonarda (hill partridge),
  10. Girivartaka (mountain quail),
  11. Krakara (snipe),
  12. Avakara (pea-fowl),
  13. Vāraḍa (spoonbill),

The meat of the Viṣkira birds of the Vartakādi sub-group is sweet, slightly astringent and useful for the patients of sannipāta having preponderance of pitta and vāta in moderate degree, and kapha in the lowest one. It is slightly inferior to the Prasaha animals and birds.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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