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

cooked with the Kalka of Patola , Parpata , Arishta (Nimba), Guduchi , Trip hold, Btisha , Katuka , Anibuda (Musta), Bhu-nimba , Yavdsa, Y ashti-madhu, Chandana , Ddrvi, Indra-yava , Us’ira, Trdyamdnd , ifawi and Utpala and with the expressed juice of Dhdtri , Bhringa+rdja , Abhiru (Sativari) and Kdka-mdchi readily proves curative in cases of Apachi (scrofula), Kushtha, fever, {oukra and Arjuna (two optical diseases), ulcer and in diseases of the mouth, ears, nose and the eyes. 1 17, Kalyanaka Ghrita Clarified butter, duly cocked with the Kalka of Vidanga , Trip ha Id, Musta ,

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ManjishtM4 y Dddima , Utpala , Priyangu , Elavdluka ,

Chandana, Devaddru , Varhistha (Vdtaka), Kuskthd , Haridrd \ the two kinds of Parnni and of SarivA , Harenuka, Trivrity Danti , Vacha , Tdlis'a , Kes'ara and MAlati flowers with milk twice as much as clarified butter, is called the Kalyafaaka Ghrita. The range of its therapeutic application incudes such diseases as Vishama Jwara, asthma, Gulma, insanity and diseases due to the effect of any poison. It is auspicious and it removes affections due to the evil influences of malignant spirits and demons, etc., dulness of appetite, epileptic fits, senile decay, sterility and diseases of the seminal cord. It invigorates the eye-sight and imparts memory and longevity to the person who uses it. 1 1 8.

Maha-Kalyanaka Ghrita A Prastha

measure of clarified butter made from the milk of a cow of Kapila species and duly cooked with the Kalka of the preceding drugs and the drugs known as Sarvagandhd (Elâdi-gana) and with (dead) gold and gems should again be duly cooked with the Kalka of Sumanah, Champ aka, As oka and S'irisha flowers and with Nalada and Padma (red lotus) and the polens of Dddima flowers with the milk of a cow of the same species. It should be prepared under the auspicious of favourable astral combinations and lunar planes of both the physician and of the patient and then be duly coif secrated by Brimhanas. It is called Mahst-Kalytfnaka Ghrita aud may be prescribed *t for a king. It proves curative in all forms of fever. Its very touch and sight confers bliss and destroys disease. Its use enables a man to live to three hundred years free from disease and decay and to remain invincible against the attacks of all created beings. 1 19.

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Pancha-Gavya-Ghrita Fquai parts of

milk, curd, clarified butter and urine of a cow and the expressed fluid of cow-dung duly cooked with the Kalka of Tri-phald, Chitraka, Must a, the two kinds of Haridrd, Ativishd , Vachd, Vi dang a, Tri-kata , Chavya and Suraddru prove curative in Vishama Jwara. It is called Paucha-Gavya-Ghrita. The same five substances obtained from a cow (e.g., milk, curd, clarified butter, urine and the expressed liquid of cow-dung) may be duly cooked without the addition of any Kalka as also with the above Kalkas and the expressed juice of Vdsaka or of Vald, or of Guduchi . * All of these medicated Ghritas are efficacious in cases of Jirna Jwara (chronic fever), chlorosis and edema. The same five substances (e. g. milk, curd, clarified butter, urine and the expressed fluid of dung) of a she-shccp, a she-goat or a shcbuffalo and the four substances ( c. g. milk curd, clarified butter and urine) of a shc-camel may be prepared (and used) in the same manner. 1 20—1 22.

Tri-phaladi Ghrita: — Clarified butter duly cooked with the Kalkas f of Tri-phald , Us'ira , Sampdka, Katuka , Ativishd , S'atdvari, Sapta-parna, Guduchi, the two kinds of Rajani , Chitraka , Trivrita , Murvd, Patola , Arishta , Vdlaka , Kirdta-tikta , Vachd , Vis'd/d, Padmaka , Utpala , the two Kinds of Sdrivd , Yashti - madhu , Chavikd , Rakta-chandana , Durdlabhd , Parpataka , Trdyamind , Atarnshaka (Vasaka), Rdsnd, Kumkumx (saffron), Manjishthd , Mdgadhi and Ndgara with the

* Dallana says that the expressed juice of Vdsaka , or

Guduchi , should be separately used along with the ordinary Kalkas (Tfi*phald, etc.) of the Pancha-gavya Ghrita. But we are inclined to take the lines to mean that Vdsaka, VaU and Guduchi should be separately used as Kalkas in place of the ordinary Kalkas.