Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The bile of such a person, ( thus ) excited, afflicts his body with such diseases as have ( already ) been declared, to the detri¬ ment of ( his ) strength, complexion, and happy life.25

Its subjugation is brought about by the following means.

The drinking of Ghee.

The use of Ghee as a Snehana ( i e., rubbing it all over the body ).*

The administration of correctives that would operate through the lower duct, ( i. e., the administration of purgatives ).+

The use of medicines and dietary substances which are sweet, bitter, astringent, and cooling.

Indulgence of such scents ar are mild, sweet, fragrant, cooling and agreeable.

For' Upanahana ’ or plasters, &c., vide Lesson III, p. 19, Sutrasthanam,

' Udveshtana ’ implies bandages of various kinds or a twining round the limbs of cords, &c.

‘ Parisheka ’ and ‘ Avagahana ' are particular methods of Swedana ; vide. pp. 160 and 161 of Sutrasthanam, ante.

For wines, &c., vide Lesson XXVII, p, 329, Sutrasthanam ; particularly pp. 362-65.

For drugs exciting the appetite, &c., vide Lesson IV. p. 27.

“ Cooked a hundred times,” and “ cooked a thousand times " are especial methods of preparing oils and ghees. These have been mentioned in Chikitsasthana or the Division on treatment of disease.

* Snehana means the application of medicated oils over the surface of the body. Here the Rishi directs that no oil is to be used, but, in its stead, only ghee.— T.

f ‘ Doshaharanam ’ is the cure or alleviation of the excited faults. Here the particular fault excited is bile. The use of purgatives is intended. — T.

p. 524

CHA RA KA-SA M HI TA.

Frequently placing on the breast garlands of pearls and gems cooled by delicious breezes and the night dew.

Plastering, placing, and sprinkling of white sandal, Aglaia Roxbughiana, Kaliya, lotus-stalks, and cold water, with fanning, and sprinkling of water from drenched Utpalas, Kumudas, Kokanadas, and fragrant lotuses.*

Listening to such vocal songs and instrumental music as are pleasing to the ear, mild, sweet, and agreeable.

Listening to scriptural recitations and other discourses as are auspicious.

Re-unions with friends and well-wishers. Reunions with agreeable women whose touch is cooling and who are clad in silk and decked with floral wreaths and garlands ( of gold and gems ).

Residence in palatial mansions cooled by the rays of the moon and exposed to breezes blowing from every direction.

Residence in regions of sandy soil in the midst of waters, and in regions that are cool, wearing cool clothes, fanning with drench¬ ed yak-tails and palm-leaves, and exposure to cool breezes.

Enjoyment of delightful pleasure-gardens and groves through which blow breezes that are delicious, cool and fragrant.

The use of Nalinas, Utpalas, Padmas, Kumudas, Saugandhikas, Pundarikas, and £atapatras, in large numbers, and also of everything that is possessed of cooling effects on the body.aft

* Utpala, otherwise called Nilotpala, is the Nymphcea Stellata, Linn. Kumuda is the Nymphcea Lotus, Linn.

Kokonada is the Nelumbium Speciosum, Willd. The red variety.

The word ‘Padma' is general. It is used to express all the different varieties of the flower commonly called Lotus. It is, of course, the Nelumbium speciosum of all varieties. — T.

j- Nalin is a variety of the Lotus.

For Utpala vide the previous note.

For Padma vide ditto.

For Kumuda vide ditto.

Saugandhika is a variety of the Lotus.

CHAR A KA-SA MHITA.

p. 525

Of one in whose constitution the phlegm premominates, the phlegm is quickly excited in consequence of indulgence in such articles and practices as have been declared capable of exciting the phlegm.

The two others ( vise., wind and bi'e ) will not be excited by such indulgence.27

The phlegm of such a person, ( thus ) excited, afflicts his body with such diseases as have already been declared, to the detriment of ( his ) strength, complexion, and happy life.23

Its subjugation may be brought about by the following means :

The administration, according to the rules laid down, of correct¬ ives that are keen and warm.

The use of food and drink that are mostly dry and possessed of pungency, bitterness, and astringency of taste.

Also ( indulgence in ) running, jumping, leaping, walking about, night-keeping, fighting, sexual congress, athletic exercises, sub¬ jecting the body to rubbing, baths, and chaffing the body.

Especially the drinking of such liquors as are keen and as have been kept for a long time.

Fasts of every kind.

The use of warm clothes,

With smoking,

And abstinence from every kind of comfort.

The above are calculated to give ease to such a person.25*

Pundarika is a variety of ditto.

(Jatapatra is literally 'with a hundred petals’. It is a variety of the Lotus.

The meaning of the word ‘hasta’ is ‘kalapa’ or ‘sam’hua’ as explained by Chakrapani. Gangadhara explains the word wrongly.

* ‘Langhana’ and ‘plavana’ both imply motion by jumps and leaps. The former, it seems, is limited to sudden leaps by which one passes over some impediments or from one side of a ditch to another. ‘Plavana’ is motion by continuous leaps, like that of the frog. Gangadhara wrongly takes it as 'swimming’.

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p. 526

CHAR. \KA-SAMH1TA.

( Here occurs a Verse. )