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

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Bhadrodaya-Anjana * The drugs known as Kushtha> Chandatta , Eld , Patra, Yashti-madhu , Rasdnjana, flowers of Mesha-s'ringi, Chakra (Tagara), the seven kinds of jewels*, the pollens of the flowers of Utpala , Brihati , Kartakdri and of lotus, Ndga-kes'ara , Us’ira> Pippali \ the shells of hen’s eggs, Ddru-haridra , Haritaki , Gorochond , Maricha , marrow or kernel of Vibhitaka - seeds and the flesh of lizards (which are found to scale the walls of rooms), should be powdered together in equal parts and should be preserved in a vessel and purified (sanctified) in the preceding manner. This Anjana is called the Bh adrodaya-Anjana and should always be used by a king. 46.

Equal parts of Chakra (Tagara), Maricha, Jatd-mdmsi and S'aileya with Manah-s ild equal to the combined weight of the preceding drugs, four parts of Patra with Rasdnjana (antimony) twice the combined weight of all the preceding drugs and Yashti-madhu of equal*f“ weight with the last-named drug (Rasdnjana) should be powdered together and used as an Anjana in the foregoing manner. 47.

Manah-s’ild , Deva-ddru , the two kinds of Rajani \ Triphald , Trikatu i Ldkshd , Las'una, Manjishthd , Saindhava , Eld , Mdkshika , Sdvaraka Rodhra i dead iron and copper, Kdldnu-sdriva and the outer shells of hen’s eggs taken in equal parts should be powdered together, resolved into a paste with milk and made into pills of adequate size. Diseases of the eye such as the itching sensation in the eye, Timira/ Sukldrma and Raktariji readily yield to the curative efficacy of this Anjana. 48.

* The seven kinds of gems are (1) Padmaraga, (2) Matakata, (3) Hila, (4) Vaidurya, (5) Mukta (pearl) (6) Prav£la and (7) Hema (gold).

t According to some the weight of the Yashti-madhu to be used in this Anjana should be equal to that of all the other drugs combined.

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An Anjana should be prepared by collecting lampblack on a vessel made of Indian bell-metal, and mix* ing it with one part each of Yashtimadhu , Saindhava , Tagara and roots of Eranda , as well as two parts of BriAatz. This compound should be pasted together with goats milk and thinly plastered on a copper plate. This process should be continued for seven times in succession and dried in the shed. It should then be made into Vartis and (used as such) would relieve pain in the eye. 49.

One part each of Haritaki Yaskti-madku with sixteen parts of Maricha should be pounded and pasted together with cold water. It should then be made into Vartis and would be efficacious in all sorts of ocular affections. An experienced physician may with care and discretion prepare Pindafajanas with the drugs antidotal to the specific Dosha or Doshas involved in the case, in the manner of preparing the Rasa-kriy4 preparations. 50-51.

Thus ends the eighteenth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhita whieh deals with the preparations and uses of the medicinal measures to be used in different ocular affections.

CHAPTER XIX.

Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment to be adopted -in cases of hurt or injury to the eye

(Nayanatohighatta-Pratishedha). i.

A violent and intolerable pain in the eye accompanied by redness and swelling therein, resulting from a blow or from any sort of hurt or injury to the organ, should be remedied with the application of medicinal Nasya (errhines), plasters, sprinkling and Tarpana (soothing measures), and other measures mentioned before, as well as the measures prescribed in cases of Pittaja and Raktaja Abhishyanda — lit. remedial to the pain (Sula) caused by the deranged blood and Pitta in the locality. The affected eye (Drishti) should also be soothed with the help of cool, sweet and fatty drugs. This kind of treatment should also be followed in cases where the eye would be hurt or oppressed by (excessive) fomentation, smoke or glare-fite, or affected on account pf fear, mental agony, pain or injury. These measures should also be resorted to in the first stage (/. <?., during the first week) of the hurt or injury in the eye. After this period the affected eye should be treated as a case of an Abhishyanda with due regard to the nature of the specific deranged bodily Dosha or Doshas involved in the case. A slight hurt in the eye may be instantaneously relieved by the application of warm breath-fomentation . 2-4.

Prognosis 5 — Any ulceration restricted to one Patala (coat) only of the eye may be easily cured ; an ulcer invading two Patalas of the organ may be healed only with the greatest difficulty, while the one affecting three Patalas should be regarded as incurable.

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