1997 (9) TMI 246

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....ention that even if the same was sold under a Trade name, it was an Ayurvedic medicament and set aside the lower order. The Revenue have come up in appeal against this order of the Collector. 2. Shri H.K. Jain, SDR amplifying on the submissions made in the appeal memorandum stated that authoritative books show the seed of Isafgol as therapeutic material and not the husk which is the major ingredient in the contested medicine. It was argued that the major ingredients were not known in the common parlance as ayurvedic medicine nor is the product manufactured exclusively as per the formula prescribed in the Authoritative Text Books. Shri C. L. Lodha, Advocate placed before us extracts from a number of Ayurvedic Texts to show that all t....

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....9 (42) E.L.T. 33. One criterion was that it should find recognition in a standard Ayurvedic work. The respondent has placed before us citations and extracts from a number of Authoritative volumes on Ayurveda. The list of the Titles is as follows :- 1. Dravyagnana Vignan Nighantu by Acharya P.V. Sharma. 2. Bhavprakash Nighatu. 3. Indian Materia Medica by Dr. A.K. Nadharni, Popular Prakashan, Bombay. 4. Shaligram Nighantu (Parishisht). 5. Nighantu Adarsh. 6. Medicinal Plants of India by ICMR, Delhi. 7. Ayurveda Vignan Nighantu. 8. Sidhhabheshaj Manimala. 9. Kaiyadev Nighantu. 10. Dhanwantari Nighantu. We have perused the reference to the various ingredients for....