The Sushruta Samhita — trans. Bhishagratna

5l8 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXVII.

(which is not usually given to mortal eyes to descry). The mind, shorn of the qualities of Rajas (action) and Tamas (nescience), becomes possessed of Sattva (illuminating principles or true knowledge). Things are permanently and indelibly impressed upon his (user's) memory at a single hearing and the faculty of invention wonderfully expands. Old age and decay permanently vanish and youth returns to stay in him for good, bringing with it an elephantine strength and a horse-like speed, and he is enabled to live for eight hundred springs The medicated oil known as Anutaila should be used in anointing (the body at this stage of treatment) ; a decoction of Aja-karna for Utsddana .washing) purposes^ well-water saturated with Us'ira for bathing purposes, sandal paste in anointmg (Anulepana) the body, and the regimen of diet and conduct as described in connection with the Bhallsktaka treatment (Vidhdna^ should be observed. 6.

Kasmarya Kalpa :— The use of huskless Kats'maryaja seeds for rejuvinating purposes, is similar to the preceding one, except that it requires a separate kind of diet and does not require the use to lie on the ground. Under this treatment, the diet should consist of (boiled) rice and well-boiled milk and the beneficial effects that would result from its use, are identical with those of the foregoing one. These remedies should b3 employed \\\ diseases originatiag through the vitiated blood and Pitta of the system. 7.

Vala- Kalpa :— A Pala or half a Pala weight of the (powdered) roots of the Vala should be well-stirred in cow's milk and taken (every day\ and the patient or the user should not be allowed to stir out of his room as prescribed before (during the entire course of taking the rnedicine\ He should be advised to take a meal con-

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sisting of boiled rice, milk and clarified buttor after the medicine had been fully digested. Premature old age and senile decay would be arrested for a period of twelve years by taking this elixir continuously for twelve days in the foregoing manner, whereas an extension of its course to a hundred days would add a hundred summers to the duration of his ) outhful age. Ati-valai, Naga-valai, Vidatri, Satatvari may be similarly taken for the same purposes^ with this distinction that the (powders of) the Ati-vald should be taken with water, those of the Ndga-vald, with honey, whereas Vz'ddrz a.nd the S'atdvari powders should be taken with milk. The regimen of diet and conduct as well as the beneficial results produced therefrom should be the same (as from the use of Vald). The present remedies are recommended to persons seeking strength or suffering from an attack of Hoematemesis or Hoematochczia * 8.

Vsfrah! Kalpa : — A Tuld measure of the powders of Vs^rakhi-bulbs should be taken in an adequate dose (everyday) by mixing it with honey and stirring it with milk A meal of boiled rice with clarified butter and milk should be taken after it had been digested and the patient should be advised to observe a regimen of diet and conduct (Pratishedha) as laid down before (in connection with the foregoing elixirs). By using it a man is enabled to witness a hundred summers and does not feel any fatigue after sexual excesses. A quantity of this powder should be mixed with milk and boiled (according to the rules of Kshirapdka). When sufficiently cooled, the milk should be churned and the clarified butter produced therefrom should be taken after the medicine had been digested. A

* Suffering from consumption and hoemoptysis. — D. R.

520 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. tCk^ XXVIL continuous use of the medicine for a month enables a man to live up to a good hundred years. 9.

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* Suffering from consumption and hoemoptysis. — D. R.

520 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. tCk^ XXVIL continuous use of the medicine for a month enables a man to live up to a good hundred years. 9.

A decoction should be made by boiling together the pith of the Vijaka* (Pita Sila) and the roots of the Agni-mantha with which a Prastha measure of Mdskapulse should be duly cooked. When the Masha-pulse is sufficiently boiled, an Aksha measure of powdered Chitraka roots and the expressed juice of the Ama/aMa weighing a fourth part of the 3fds/ia-pu\sQ should be added to it, and the whole compound should be removed (from the oven) at the close of the cooking. When cooled down this compound should be taken in adequate doses with honey and clarified butter after consecrating it a thousand times with appropriate Mantras. Persons seeking longevity and a stronger or improved range of vision should take this and they should be advised to take their meals without any salt. The meal, after the digestion of the medicine, should consist of boiled rice and a copious quantity of clarified butter and should be taken with unsalted Mudga, and Amalaka soup or with milk alone. A continuous use of either of these two medicines for three consecutive months would make a man's eye-sight as keen and foresighted as that of a Suparnat and enable him to witness a hundred summers in the full vigour of health, strength and manhood.^ 10.

* Dallana recommends one Pala weight of Vijaka Sira and Agoi-

manlha to be boiled in an Adhaka measure of water which should be reduced to one half for the preparation of the decoction.

t Suparna is the king of birds and is said to be the most keensighted .

X Dallana says that some commentators do not read this, since they do not consider it to be a part of the original text. Jejjata also has not read this.

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IVIemorable Verse :--The use of Sana (seeds)

boiled with milk and taken also with milk guards against the loss of flesh and prevents the body from suffering any decay, i r.

Thus ends the Twenty-seventh Chapter of the Chikiisita Sihanam in the
Sus'ruta Samhitd which deals with elixirs and rejuvenators.

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CHAPTER XXYIII.

Now we shall discourse on the elixirs and remedial agents which tend to improve the memory and invigorate the mental faculties as well as to increase the duration of human life (IVIeclhayushkamiyam Rasayanam). i.

iSvctavalguJa-RassTyana :— The fruit