An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)

Maha-Kaly^na Ghrita s— Clarified butter duly cooked with twice as much of milk and with Vtdanga , Truphatd , Musta , Manjishthd , Dddtma , Utpala, S'ydmd , Ela^vdlukd, Eld $ (redi Chandana , Deva-ddru, Barhishtha (Bdlaka), Haridrd, Kushtha , Pamini Sdlaparni), Sdrivd , Harenukd , Trivrit , Danti , Vacha, Tdlisapatra, Ndga-kes' ara and Mdlati flowers as Kalka(is called Italy a'na Ghrita* and) proves curative in cases of Gulma, cough, fever, asthma, phthisis and insanity. Clarified butter duly cooked with four times as much of milk and with the aforesaid drugs as Kalka and with the drugs of the Kdkolyddi group added to it by way of an after-throw is called Mahi-kalyioa Ghrita. The range of its therapeutic application includes (such ailments as) Apasmira, (attack by) Graha, consumption, impotency, emaciation and sterility as well as the diseases mentioned above. 12.

Fhala Ghrita Clarified butter duly cooked with Bdlaka , Kushtha , Manjishthd , Katuka , Eld, Haridrd, Tri-phald , Hingu , As 9 vagandhd , Deva-ddru, Vacha, Yamdni , Kdkoli, Medd , Yashti-madhu and Padmaki as Kalka) , and with four times as much of milk and with sugar as an after-throw would be beneficial. It should also be prescribed for infants struck by malignant stars as well as for male adults of evil propensities and short intellect. This is known as Phala-Ghrita* and removes barrenness of women 13.

Brdhni (Manduka-parni), Ainlri \ Vidanga, Tri-katu , Hingu, Surd (Deva-ddru\ Jatd (Jatd-mdmsi), Vishaghni (Haridrd), Las'un.i (garlic), Rdsnd , Vis'alyd (Guduchi), Surasd , Vacha , Jyotishmati, Ndga-vinnd (a kind of

* According to Dallana the mentions of these two recipes (Kalydna Ghrita and Phala Grita) are interpolations.

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Indra-viruni), Anatitd, Abhayd and Sourdshtri taken in equal parts should be pounded together and made into a paste with the addition of elephant’s urine. It should then be dried in the shade, and Vartis should be prepared thereof. These should be used by ' an intelligent person as an Anjana, unguent, snuff, fumi* gation and Avapida. 14.

Blood-letting from the Uras (chest), Apdnga (outer corner of the eye) and Lal£ta (forehead) should be resorted to. Measures and drugs mentioned in connection with the treatment of Apasmâra and Graha-roga may be likewise employed in the present instance. Oily purgatives (Sneha-vasti) should be administered after the subsidence of the deranged Dosha. 1 5.

In a case of the fifth kind (vis. Siokaja) of insanity the cause of grief should be first removed. In all forms of insanity the restoration of the serenity of mind should be first attempted. Mild and gentle forms of these remedies should be resorted to in a case of Mada (preliminary stage of insanity). Mild anti-venomous (anti-toxin) measures should be resorted to in • a case (of insanity due to the effects of poison. 17-18.

Thus ends the sixty-second chapter in the Uttara-Tantra of the Sus'ruta Samhitd which deals with the (symptoms and) treatment of Insanity*

Here ends the Bhuta-vidycC-Tantra.

CHAPTER LXIII.

Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the different combinations of the (six) different Rasas (Rasa-bheda- vi kal paAdhykya) . i.

The fifteen different combinations of the Doshas already spoken of (in Chapter XXI, Sutra-SthAna) are meant only for the sixty-three different combinations of the (six) Rasas (taken one, two, three, four, five or all at a time). They (z>/£.the different Doshas) may be manifest separately (Avidagdha) or combinedly (Vidagdha) with one another and the number of their combinations should be taken to be sixty-three pari passu with the sixtythree different combinations of the (six) different Rasas. In other words, the combinations of the Doshas with one another already spoken of should be considered by an intelligent person to be sixty-three in all (and not fifteen only, as spoken of in Chapter XXI, SutraSthâna). 2 — 3.

Enumeration— Taken two at a time:—

The Madhura Rasa (sweet taste) coming first in the order of enumeration has got five combinations (with the other five Rasas) taken two at a time. Similarly Amla Rasa (acid taste) has got four combinations and Lavana Rasa (saline taste) has got three. Katuka Rasa (pungent taste) has got two and Tikta Rasa (bitter taste) has got only one with Kasdya Rasa (astringent taste). The different combinations taken two at a time are thus fifteen in all. They are as fallows : —

(1) Sweet and acid, (2) sweet and saline, (3) sweet and pungent (4) sweet and bitter and (5) sweet and ^stringent — these are the five combinations of Madhijr^

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(sweet) Rasa, (i) Acid and saline, (2) Acid and pungent (3) Acid and bitter, and (4) Acid and astringent —these ai*e the four combinations of Amla (acid) Rasa.

(1) Saline and pungent, (2) Saline and bitter, and (3) Saline and astringent — these are the three combinations of Lavana (saline) Rasa. (1) Pungent and bitter, and