Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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They are ‘auspicious, i. they are used oh various sacred and ceremonial occasions.
They are ‘pachanas’, i. e., they help digestion. — T.
* ‘Viryya’ is different from ‘guna’ quality or virtue), and ‘karma’ (effect). It is difficult to render it by any English word. I use ‘energy’ or ‘potence’ as the nearest approach to to express the sense. The exact sense of the word will appear from what has been said below.— T.
t ‘Qasyiim’, i. e., the kernel or substance of the fruit divested of seed. — T.
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CHARAKA-SAMH1TA.
They should be fully developed in respect of both juice and energy.
They should appear in the . proper season.
They should be such as have been exposed to the proper measure of heat of the sun, water from the clouds, shade, and wind.
They should be unbaked and unrotten.
They should not have scratches or cuts on their surface.
They should be free from disease. 38-39
[BRAHMYA-RASAYANA.]
Ten palas of each of the five groups of five roots, a thousand fruits of chebulic myrobalans, and thrice that number of fresh fruits of Phyllanthus Emblica ;
the five groups of five roots being as follow, viz.,
1. (Vidarigandha) Hedysarum Gangeticum, (Vrihati) Solatium lndicum, (Prisniparni) Doodia logopodioides, (Nidigdhika) Sola¬ rium Xanthocarpum, and £wadangshtra Tribulus lanceginosus,
These should be known as the group of five roots beginning with (Vidarigandha) Hedysarum Gangeticum.
2. (Vilwa) iEgle Marmelos, (Agnimantha) Premna Sonatifolia, (£yonaka) Bignomia Indica, (Kasmaryya) Genelina arborea, and (Patala) Bignomia suave-olens.
These should be known as the group of five roots beginning with (Vilwa) ALgle marmelos.
3. Punarnava) Boerhavia diffusa, (the two ‘Surpaparnos’ viz., Mudgaparni and Mashaparni) Phaseolos trilobus, Glycine debilis, (Bala) Sida cordifolia, and (Eranda) Ricinus communis.
These should be called the group of five roots beginning with Punarnava or Boerhavia diffusa.
4. (Jivaka) which being unobtainable, Guduchi or T inospora cordi¬ folia is used as a substitute, (Rishavaka), which being unobtain¬ able, Vangsolochana or Bambu manna is used as a substitute, (Meda) which being unobtainable, Agwagandha or Physalis flexuosa is used as a substitute, (Jivanti) Ccelogyne ovalis, and (£atavari) Asparagus racemosus.
These should be called the group of five roots beginning with Jivaka), and
5. (Sara) Saccharum Sara, (Ikshu Saccharum officinarum, (Darbha)
CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
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Saccharum cylindricum, (Kasa) Saccharum spontaneum, and (£ali) Oryza sativa of the red variety.
(These should be called the group of five roots beginning with Trina).
Taking the measure indicated above of each of the above five groups of five roots, it should be boiled in water of ten times the aggregate (viz., 500 palas or sixty-two and half seers).
When the water has been boiled down to a tenth of its quantity (i. e. 50 palas or six and a quarter seers), it should be strained through a piece of clean cloth and kept in a vessel.
Into it should then be thrown all the chebulic myrobalans and all the emblic myrobalans also, divested of their seeds and pounded into a paste.
The pulv, after this, of the following should be thrown into the vessel, the measure of each being 4 palas, viz.,
(Mandukaparni) Hydercotile Asiatica,* Piper longum, (£ankhapushpi) Pladua decussata, (Plava) the tubers of Cyperus rotundUs of the large variety, (Musta) the tubers of Cyperus rotundus, (Vidanga) Embellia Ribes, (Chandana) Pterocurpus Santalinus, (Aguru) Aquilaria Agallocha, (Madhuka) Liquorice, (Haridra) Curcuma longa,. Vacha Acorus calamus, (Kanaka) Mesua ferrea, and (Sukshma Ela) the seeds of cardamums of the small variety. 40-48
The pulv of sugarcandy, measuring a thousand and a hundred palas, two ‘Adhakos’ (equal to 16 seers) of oil, and three ‘Adhakos’ (equal to 24 seers) of ghee, should be added.f 49
All these are then boiled in a vessel of copper, on a mild fire. When the boiled substance becomes consistent enough to be licked, the vessel should be taken down. When cooled, honey should be added. Its measure should be half that of oil and ghee. 5°
The product should be kept in an earthen jar which has sucked a sufficient quantity of ghee. It should be kept in this state for some time. After this, the physician should administer, at the proper time, a measure that he thinks to be judicious.J 51 t In practice, the measure of liquids is doubled. Hence 32 seers of oil, and 48 seers of gJiee are added. — T.
* Some texts read ‘Dantimula’, that is, the roots of Danti or Baliosperenum urentanum. — T.
t As the measure of oil and ghee is 32 and 48=80 seers, that of honey should be 40 seers. — X.
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CHARAKA -SAMHFTA.
The measure of the dose should be such as may not prevent one from taking one’s ordinary meals.
When the medicine taken has been digested, boiled ‘shashthika’ rice, mixed with (cow’s) milk, should, it is desirable, be given. 52
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