Medical knowledge of Vemana.

C. P. Brown was the first to collect the palm-leaf manuscripts of Vemana's verses from different centres. He collected about 2500 verses and published some of them with English translation. A number of edition> with ver ses ranging from 100 to 5000 were brought forth by different editors/publishers. It is therefore difficult to establish the authenticity of these verses. The possibility of attributing to Vernana the authorship of verses composed in the same meter with the same tail piece line by other enterprising authors cannot be ruled out. There is 'hardly a proverb or pithy saying which is not attributed to him.