An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)
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A decoction of the barks of Kapota-bankd , Araluka Varuna, Pdribhadraka and A 'sphotd should be used in washing, and medicated oil duly cooked and prepared with (the Kalka and decoction of) Vacha y Vayasthd , (BrAhmi), Golomi \ Haritala , Manah-s'ila , Kusktka and Sarja-rasa (resin) should be used in anointing the body of a child possessed by PutanA. 2-3.
Clarified butter duly cooked with the Tugd-kshiri \ Kusktka , Tali s' a, Kkadira and Ckandana , and the drugs of the Madkura group would be found beneficial. 4.
Deva-ddru , Vachd, Kusktka , Hingu , Giri-kadamba , and Harem should be used in fumigating the body of the child. Fumigation of Gandhandkuli \ Kumbhikd , marrow of Vadara-fruits , shells of crabs, and mustard-seeds pounded together and mixed with clarified butter may also be used. Kdkddani \ Ckitraphaldy Vimbi and Gunjd should be worn on the body (as a charm) by the child. 5-6.
v Putana, the presiding deity of the disease, should be worshipped in the interior of a lonely chamber with oblations and with the offerings of boiled rice prepared with the admixture of fish as well as those of Kris , ard i and Pa/a/a (meat or puddings of sesamum) placed in a saucer and covered with another, and the child should be bathed with the water left behind after worship. 7 A.
The worshipping Mantra is as follows : — “May the slovenly shag-haired goddess, Putani, who is dressed in dirty clothes, and who loves to haunt lonely
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THE SUSHRUTA SAMFUtX. [Chap. XXXII.
dwellings, .preserve the child. May the fierce-looking, frightful goddess who is as black as a dark rain-cloud, who loves to haunt lonely and dilapidated human dwellings and whose body gives off filthy odours protect the child from all evils.” 7.
Thus ends the thirty-second chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhitd which deals with the medical treatment (of an attack) by Putand.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Now wc shall discourse on the chapter which deals >vith the medical treatment of (an attack by) Andha-putana (Andha-putamt-Pratishedha). i.
The decoction of the leaves of the trees of the Tiktaka gana (trees of bitter taste) should be used in sprinkling (the body of the possessed child). Surd (wine), Souviraka (a kind of acid gruel), Kushtha , Haittdla , Manah-sild and Sarjarasa (resin) should be used in due proportion in medicating the oil (for the child) and medicated Ghrita should be duly cooked with the Kalka and decoction of Pippali , Pippali-mula , the drugs of the Madhura group, S'dlaparni and the two kinds of Vrihati with the addition of honey (as an after-throw). 2 A.
Plasters of the drugs of the Sârva-gandhd (KlAdi ; group should be applied to the body of the child and its eyes should be soothed with cold applications. The feces of the the cock, its feather and skin*, the cast-off skin of a snake and the ragged garment of a (Buddhist) monkf should be used for fumigating the child’s body. The child should be made to wear (the roots of) Kukkuti , Markati , S'imbi and Anantd as a charm. 2 B.
Offerings of meat, cooked or uncooked, and of blood should be made (to Andhapulani) at the crossing of roads or inside a house for the preservation of the not of a cock.
* Some explain (hair) and (thin) as those of man and
| Bhavaprakas'a reads '• very old cloth. This reading does not suggest that the cloth to be used should have been worn by a Buddhist monk.
*56 f HE SUSUKUTA SAM1IITX [Chap. XXXlt t child, which (with its nurse) should also be bathed with the decoction of the holy drugs of the Sarva-gandha group. The Mantra runs as follows : — “May the dreadful, brown-coloured, bald-headed, goddess Andha-putana, wearing a red-coloured garment be pleased to save this child.” 2.
Thus ends the thirty-third chapter in the Uttara«Tantra of the Sui/ruta Samhita which deals with the medical treatment of (an attack) by Andha-puland*
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment of (an attack by) Sita-putana (^Ita-putana-Pratishedha). x.
The decoction of Kapittha , Suvahd (RisnA), Vimbi, Vilva, Prachivala (?), Nandi (Vata) and Bhalldtaki should be used in sprinkling [the child’s body). The urine of a cow and of a shc-goat, as well as Musta, Deva-daru , Kushtha and the drugs cf the Sarva-gandha (ElSdi) group should be used in duly preparing a medicated oil (for the purpose) and medicated Ghrita should be duly cooked with (three parts of) the decoction of Roll ini, Sarjarasa (resin \ Khadira , Paldsd and barks of Arjuna and (one part of) milk. 2 A.
Dungs of an owl and a vulture, the cast-off skin of a snake as well as Ajagandhd and Nimba leaves and Yashthi-tnadhu should be used for fumigating purposes, and Latnbd (Tiktalavu), Gunja and Kdkddani should be be worn (as a charm) by the child. 2B.
The goddess S>itaputan& should be worshipped with the offerings of the preparation of rice and Mudga pulse (cooked together) as well as with Vdruni w T ine and blood, and the child should be bathed near a river or a tank. The Mantra is as follows : — “May the goddess Sita-putanA, who is fond of the preparation of rice and Mudga pulse, who delights in drinking wine and blood and who resides by the side of a river or a tank, preserve thee.” 2.
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