An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)
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the manner of Bhavand saturation and used as a Pratyanjana * (in cases of Vdtaja Timira unattended with redness). In cases of Vdtaja Timira attended with redness of the eye, however, the Srotonjana should be placed inside the blades of Kus'a grass and preserved for a month inside the mouth of a (dead) black cobra. Then it should be taken out and mixed with Saindhava salt and the burnt ashes of Malati (Jdti) flowers. It should then be applied as an Anjana to the affected organ. As an alternative, Srotonjana should be soaked in milk for three successive days and applied to the seat of the disease in a case of (Vâtaja) Kfiteha (cataract) which is said by experts to be remediable by this Anjana. 25. Treatment of Pittaja- K^cha :-Clarified butter skimmed from milk (and not from curd) and duly cooked with the drugs of the Madhura (Kâkolyâdi) group i* should be employed as a snuff .(Nasya), or as a Tarpana in the Pittaja type of this disease. The flesh of Jangala animals (deer, etc.) and the drugs of the Kdkolyddi group should be used in the manner of Pata-ptfka in the Pittaja type of Kâcha. A Kshudrânjana composed of Rasdnjana , sugar, honey Manah-s'ild , and Yashti-madhu may likewise be applied. The use of an Anjana composed of Rasdnjana and Tutthaka taken in equal parts and finely pounded, is also recommended by experts { in such cases. Powdered Tutthaka soaked in the decoction of Bhillota and the drugs of t According to some commentators the milk should be first cooked with the drugs of the Madhura group, and butter should then be churned out of that milk.
* Pratyanjana (secondary eye-salve) is an antidote for the over-use of an Anjana.
t A benumbed condition of the eye through the abuse of eyesalves calls for the use of this Anjana as an antidote.
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74 the SUSHRUTA SAMHITX. [ Chap. XVIL the Elddi-gana would be used as a Pratyanjana, and would be found beneficial in such cases. The use (as an Anjana) of Mesha-s* ringi and Stotonjana taken in equal parts and two parts of conch-shell pounded together is efficacious in the Pittaja type of this disease (Kâcha).
The juice of P aids’ a, Rohita and Madhuka (flower) mixed with honey and the surface layer of wine (taken in equal parts) should be prepared (in the manner of Rasakriyd and applied as an eye-salve in this type). 26-27.
Treatment of Kaphaja Type The
drugs known as Us'ira , Rodhra , Triphald and Priyangu duly cooked together (with Tila oil) should be employed for the purposes of snuffing (Nasya) in the Kaphaja Type. Fumigation (Dhumana) with the vapours of Vidanga, Pdthd, Kinihi and Ingudi- bark would also prove beneficial in the Kaphaja type of cataract (Timira). The affected part should be likewise lubricated with the medicated Ghrita duly cooked with the decoction of Vanaspati (the milkexuding trees, e. g., those of the species of Indian holy fig) with pasted Haridrd and U s' ira (as Kalka). The essence of the meat of Jângala (forest) animals, mixed with Pippali and profusely saturated with Saindhava and honey, should be prepared in the manner of Puta-pdka (and applied to the affected part). Manah-s’ila» Trikatu , Saindhava , Mdkshika (honey), S*amkha y Kdsisa and Rasdnjana should be combinedly used for the purposes of Rasa-kriyd (in the type under discussion). Kdsisa , Rasdnjana , Guda (old and matured treacle) and Ndgara> may be likewise used with benefit. 28.
Treatment of Trt-doshaja Ka'cha
Anjana (Antimony) many times heated and (subsequently) soaked in the decoction of Triphald prepared with (the
Chap. XVII.]
UTTARA-TANTRAM.
>5 aight kinds of) urine, should be put inside the hollow (marrowless) bone of a nocturnal bird (such as the vulture, etc.) and kept immersed for a month in unruffled (currcntlcss) water. The Anjana thus prepared may be used with advantage, in combination with Madhuka (Yashti-madhu) and the flowers of Meshctr s'ringi in the Tri-doshaja types of Kâha. As an alternative, all the measures and remedies (e. g., Tarpana, Puta-pdka, etc.) * applicable in all the three Doshas should be employed in such cases. 29.
Treatment of blood-origfned Parin'! Idyl i — Measures and remedies mentioned in connection with the Pittaja type of Timira should be employed in a case of blood-origincd ParimWyi. In the alternative, the remedial agents prescribed for the treatment of the different kinds of Ophthalmia (Abhishyanda) should be as well prescribed according to the nature of the deranged Doshas involved in the case. In case the deranged Doshas arc not thereby subdued, Nasyas of the proper drug, as well as the many other Anjanas (collyrium) mentioned in the (next) Chapter on Kriyi-kalpa should be employed. 30.
Diet s— A person carefully partaking of old and matured clarified butter, Triphald , S'atdvari, Patola , Mudga , Amalaka , Yaia (barley) as diet enjoys immunity from all attacks of the dreadful Timira. Simply the Pdyasa f prepared with S'atdvari , or with Amalaka or a meal of barley corns cooked with the decoction J
* According .to some, the measures and remedies to be applied in such cases are the measures of Rasa*kriya applicable in cases of Vdtaja, Pittaja and Kaphaja Timira.
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