An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)
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maid (eye-lashes) should be all removed and the affected eye-lid having been carefully secured with three hooks* (Vadis'a) should be rubbed with pasted Haritaki and Tuvaraka (Lodhra). The four aforesaid measures* as well as purgatives, eye-drops (As'chyotana), medicinal snuffs, inhalations (fumigations), Plasters, Collyrium, Sneha and Rasa-kriyd, should be likewise held as beneficial-f* in cases of Pakshma-kopa. 3-5.
Thus ends the sixteenth chapter of the U ttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhitd which treats of the remedies of Pakshma-kopa.
* The four measures are (a) operation, {&) cauterisation with fire, (c) cauterisation with alkali, and (</) application of medicinal drugs,
t It should be noted that this disease cannot be radically cured, but is amenable only to palliative treatments (?j|T?r).
CHAPTER XVII.
Now we shall discourse on the curative treatment of the diseases of the pupil and the Crystalline lens
(Drishti-gata-Roga-Pratishedha). i.
Of the diseases included within the present group, three are curable, three arc incurable, while the remaining six admit only of palliative treatment. The curative remedies of the disease known as Dhuma-darsi (smoky or dusky vision) has been already described (in connection with the medical treatment of Pittaja Ophthalmia) * All the remedies applicable in cases of deranged Pitta and Kapha as well as application of Nasya (snuff), Seka (sprinkling), Anjana (Collyrium), A'lepa (plaster), Puta-pâka and Tarpana (soothing) remedies with the exception of surgical operation should be respectively administered in cases of Pitta-affected (Pitta-vidagdha) and Kapha-affected (Slcshma-vidagdha) vision. Traiphala-Ghrita should be prescribed in a case of Pitta-vidagdha-Drishti and Traivrita-Ghrita in a case of Sleshma-vidagdha-Drishti. Potions of old and matured clarified butter as well as of Tailvaka-Ghrita are equally efficacious in both cases +. Collyriums (Anjanas) should be prepared with Gonrika , Saindhava , Pippali, and the charred remains (Masi) of cow’s teeth, or with beef, Maricha , S'irisha - seeds and Manak-s’ild , or with the stalk of a Kapitthi fruit together with honey, or with Atmaguptd pasted with honey ; these four
* See Chapter X, 9, Uttara-Tantra.
t Traiphala-Ghrita, Traivrita-Ghrita and Tailvaka-Ghritd should be prepared with both the decoction and Kalka of Triphald, Trivrila and of Tilvaka respectively.
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Anjanas may be used with advantage in both the types under discussion. 2-3.
Pushpa'njana S — Powders of the flowers of Kubjaka , As oka, S dla , Atnra , Priyangu , Nalini and of Utpala , as well as powdered Renuki , Pippali, Haritaki and Amlaki mixed with honey and clarified butter, should be kept inside a hollow bamboo and applied to the eye in the manner of a collyrium (Anjana) in cases of Pitta-vidagdha and Sleshmd-vidagdha eyediseases. 4.
Dravanjana and Cudiksfnjana As
an alternative, Renukd pasted with the expressed juice of the flowers of Amra (mangoc) and Jambu (black-berry) and mixed with honey and clarified butter, should be used in both the above cases as an Anjana. Pollens of Nalini (red lotus) and of Utpala (blue lotus) as well as Gairika * pasted together with the Rasa (watery secretions) of cow-dung f and made into large pills (Gudikd) may be profitably applied to the eye as an Anjana alike in cases of day-blindness and night-blindness. This Anjana is called the Gudikdnjana. 5.
Treatment of Day-blindness \-Ra$dnjana , Rasa (Juice) j, honey, Tdlis a-patra and Svarna - gairika should be pasted together with the Rasa of cow-dung and applied (in the manner of an Anjana) ir* cases of Pitta-affected vision i)e. day-blindness. S'ita which may mean a cow or any animal, such as goat, sheep, etc.
* Chakradatta does not read ‘Gairika’ in the list, t In place of som2 read Ae liver of a
t According to Dallana, Rasa (lit : — Juice) means the juice of A'mahka . According to others, however, it means the juice of the leaves of Jdti flower. Chakradatta, however, reads “gfl” (clarified butter) in place of
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THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITX. [ Chap. XVll.
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