An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. II — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1911)

As an alternative, he should use a lambative medicinal compound of Amalaka, Aksha, Pippali and Vidanga mixed with honey and clarified butter. Or he should take a Pala weight of Haridrd with an adequate quantity of cow's urine every day for a month in order to get free from Kushtha ; or the same quantity of the fine powder of Pippali or of Chitraka should be given to him through the same vehicle and for the same period which would cure him of Kushtha. The same quantity of the fine powder of Rasdjijaiia should be given through the said vehicle and in the same manner for a period of one month and the same should also be repeatedly applied externally. 27-28.

The bat k of Arishta ( Nimba"^ and Sapia-pafni,Ldkshd, Musia, Das'a-fnuli, Haridrd, Ddru-haridrd, Manjishthd, Aksha^ Vdsaka, Deva ddru, Pathyd, Chitraka Trikatu, Amalaki and Vidanga taken in equal parts and pounded together should be mixed with powdered Vidanga\\'€\^- ing as much as the total weight of the preceding drugs ; the patient should be made to take a Pala weight of this pulverised compound every day (for a month), or he should be made to drink (in adequate doses) a Drona measure of medicated clarified butter, cooked with the powders of Triphald and Trikatu. As an alternative, Aksha-pida should be boiled in a Drona measure of cow's* urine. Clarified butter, cooked in this preparation may be used, as a remedy for Kushtha. An adequate quantity of old and matured clarified butter should be boiled with Aragvadhdi, Sapta-parna, Patoia, Vrikshaka, Naktamdla, A''imba, the two kinds of Haridrd and I\Iushkaka. This medicated Ghrita,

* Cow's urine and water in equal parts should be taken according to some commentators. Dallana, however, recommends cow's urine only and no water.

p. 358[Chap. IXthus prepared, would lead to the destruction of Kushtha* 29-30.

Dru^s such as Rodhra,Nimba, Padma-kdshtJia, Raktachandana, Sapta-parni^ Aksha, Vrikshaka and Vijaka should be administered in the bathf of the patient in the event of there being any burning sensation ; or a potion consisting of honey and pasted Tri-bhandi (Trivrit) should be given to him. Old and matured Mudga, boiled in the decoction]: of Nimba and mixed with oil, should be given to the patient as drink where sloughing would be detected in the diseased localities. A decoction of Nimba or that of Arka, Alarka and Sapta-chchhada should be given him if there be any worms in the diseased locality. The affected part of the body should be plastered over with the roots of the As'va-mdra and Vidanga, pasted with cow's urine, in the event of its being eaten away by the worms. Cow's urine should be sprinkled over the diseased locality and all food (of the patient) should be given with the powders of Vidanga. 31-32.

As an alternative, the affected parts should be rubbed with the oil of Karanja, mustard, S'igru^ or Kos'dfnra, or with an oil (any one of the preceding oils) cooked with (a decoction of) pungent, bitter and heatproducing substances. Measures laid down under the head of Dushta-Vrana (malignant ulcer) should be resorted to in a case where the aforesaid remedies would fail to produce any beneficial effect. 33.

* Dallana says that the authorship of this remedy should not be attributed to Sus'ruta, inasmuch as Jejjata doesnot mention it in his commentary.

t The drugs are to be boiled in water in which the patient should take his bath.

X The decoction should be prepared in the manrer of " ShadangaUalpa."

p. 359

Vajraka-Taila :— The roots of Sapta-pania, Karanja, Arka, Mdlati, Karavira, Snuhi, S'irisha, Chitraka and Asphotd as well as of Visha (aconite root), Ldngala, VajrakJiya (mica), sulphate of iron, Haritdla, Manah-s ild KaraHja-SQ.Q6.s, Trikatu, Triphald, the two kinds of Haridrd, white mustard-seeds, Vidanga and Prapunndda should be pasted together with the urine of a cow. The paste thus prepared should be cooked in an adequate quantity of oil.* This oil known as the Vajraka-Taila, used as uguents, proves remedial to Kushtha etc., sinus and malignant ulcers in general. 34.

IVIaha-Vajraka Taila :— The drugs and substances known as white mustard-seeds (Siddharthaka), the two kinds of Karanja^ the two kinds of Haridrd^ Rasdnjana, Kutaja, Prapunndda, Sapta-parna.Mrigddani Ldkshd, Sarja-rasa, Arka, Asphotd, Aragvadha, Snuhi, S'irisha, Tuvara, Kutaja, ArusJikara, Vacha, Kushtha, Vidanga, Manjishthd, Ldngali, Chitraka, Mdlati, Katutumbi, Gandhdhvd, Mulaka, Saindhava^ Karavira, Grihadhuma^ Visha (aconite), Kampillaka, Sindura (mercuric oxide), Tejohvd and sulphate of copper should be taken in equal parts and made into a paste. This paste (Kalka) should be cooked with either Karanja-o\\ or mustard-oil-J-, both of which have great curative potency, with double the quantity of cow's urine. It may also be prepared with sesamum-oil, but in this case four times as much of cow's urine should be taken. As an anointment it is undoubtedly efficacious in a case of Kushtha of whatsoever type as well as In cases of scrofula, fistula-inano, sinus and malignant ulcers. This oil is known by the

* S'ivadasa, the commentator on chakradatla, asserts, on the authority of Vagbhata, that the oil should be sesamum-oil and it should be boiled with cow's urine.